ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,400, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Nabors Energy Transition Solutions LLC (Houston).

"Carbon-based nanomaterial composition and methods of forming the same from a gas mixture that includes acetylene gas" was invented by Evan Johnson (Spring, Texas), Paul Yollin (Tomball, Texas) and Dylan Cook (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a carbon-based nanomaterial composition that may be formed from a gas mixture. The gas mixture may include acetylene gas at a molar ratio AGmol/GMmol of at least about 0.55 and not greater than about 0.99, oxygen gas at a molar ratio OGmol/GMmol of at least about ...