ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,024, issued on July 21, was assigned to Clyra Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Carbon-silicon composite structures and methods of fabricating thereof" was invented by Xiaohua Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), Xiahui Yao (San Jose, Calif.), Sa Zhou (Fremont, Calif.) and Song Han (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are carbon-silicon composite structures and methods of producing such structures. A carbon-silicon composite structure comprises one or more carbon-containing structures that have pores at least partially filled with silicon-containing structures. Specifically, the silicon-containing structures are attached t...