US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Aug. 11 for "Laser-assisted synthesis of graphene from pitch" (Saudi Arabia, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,634, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Laser-assisted synthesis of graphene from pitch" was invented by Remi Mahfouz (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Konstantin Novoselov (Singapore), Abdullah Alshahrani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Nada Qari (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Noor Alsakhin (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synthesizing graphene includes depositing pitch on a substrate to provide a pitch sample, and pyrolyzing at least a portion of the pitch sample with a laser, thereby forming graphene. A method for upgrading pitch includes providing a pitch sample un...