ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,262, issued on June 30, was assigned to SHT Smart High-Tech AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Laminated graphene-based thermally conductive film and pad and method for manufacturing the film and pad" was invented by Johan Liu (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden) and Thien Laubeck (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphene-based thermally conductive film comprising a plurality of strips of a graphene film arranged so that graphene sheets of the graphene film are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the thermally conductive film, wherein the thermally conductive film comprises: a plurality of first area portions compris...