ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,697, issued on March 17, was assigned to EAGLE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Nanodiamond article and associated methods of fabrication" was invented by Matthew J. Bauer (Melbourne, Fla.), Jamel Burruss (Melbourne, Fla.), Louis J. Rendek Jr. (Melbourne, Fla.), Mu-Jen Yang (Palm Bay, Fla.), Jason Thompson (Melbourne, Fla.), Robert J. Mulligan (Rockledge, Fla.) and Robert Wortman (Indialantic, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making a nanodiamond article includes applying an adhesion promoting layer to a substrate, and electrophoretically depositing a nanodiamond film on the substrate with the adhesion promoting la...