ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,432, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Methods for transferring graphene to substrates and related lithographic stacks and laminates" was invented by Vivek Pandey (Ujjain, India) and Leandro Forciniti (Wharton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for transferring graphene to substrates include at least a method for transferring a graphene-metal bilayer to a substrate to form a laminate thereof. The method can include applying a first continuous polymer layer to a graphene layer of the graphene-metal bilayer; applying a first discontinuous polymer layer to the first continuous pol...