ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,907, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NanoXplore Inc. (Montreal).

"Large scale production of thinned graphite, graphene, and graphite-graphene composites" was invented by Marie Bozalina (Montreal), Philippe Perret (Longueuil, Canada) and Soroush Nazarpour (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate generally to large scale synthesis of thinned graphite and in particular, few layers of graphene sheets and graphene-graphite composites. In some embodiments, a method for producing thinned crystalline graphite from precursor crystalline graphite using wet ball milling processes is disclosed herein. The met...