US Patent Issued to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM on March 17 for "Technologies for optically controlling friction with plasmon-active photofriction elements" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,799, issued on March 17, was assigned to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas).

"Technologies for optically controlling friction with plasmon-active photofriction elements" was invented by James Batteas (College Station, Texas), Maelani N. N. Guarino (College Station, Texas), Matthew Sheldon (College Station, Texas) and Mary Cynthia Hipwell (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for optically controlling friction include a plasmon-active photofriction element, or a friction pixel. A structure includes a base substrate material, a plasmon-active element coupled to the base substrate mat...