ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,004, issued on June 3, was assigned to Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (Pune, India) and TCG CENTRES FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Kolkata, India).

"Process for graphene-like carbon coating on substrates" was invented by Minal Wable (Ahmednagar, India), Mohammad Furquan (Moradabad, India), Abhik Banerjee (Kolkata, India) and Satishchandra Ogale (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a patternable process for coating functional and adherent graphene-like carbon on multiple substrate types using CO2 laser-induced photothermal pyrolysis in scanning mode. Th...