ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,160, issued on July 28, 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: "Producing a food testing sensor electrode, using a first laser beam 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 selected to create carbon foam in the sub-surface region and a carbon-based material above the carbon foam; and a second laser beam to remove or a...