US Patent Issued to INTEGRATED GRAPHENE HOLDING on April 21 for "Laser-induced carbon nanostructures" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,439, issued on April 21, was assigned to INTEGRATED GRAPHENE HOLDING Ltd. (Stirling, Great Britain).

"Laser-induced carbon nanostructures" was invented by Marco Caffio (Stirling, Great Britain) and Pablo Lozano-Sanchez (Stirling, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing an agricultural testing sensor electrode, using a first laser beam configured to irradiate an encapsulated, sub-surface region of a carbon pre-cursor material below a surface of the carbon pre-cursor material, the first laser beam creating carbon foam in that encapsulated, sub-surface region and a carbon-based material above the carbon foam;...