US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 16 for "Method for fusion of carbon nanostructures" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,025, issued on June 16, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method for fusion of carbon nanostructures" was invented by Avetik R. Harutyunyan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making an assembly of fused carbon nanostructures that includes providing a plurality of carbon nanostructures, combining the plurality of carbon nanostructures with a plurality of catalyst particles to provide a catalyst-nanostructure assembly, heating the catalyst-nanostructure assembly to a first temperature sufficient to provide at least one etched portion, thereby providing an etched catalyst-nanostructure assembly,...