US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Feb. 24 for "Carbon fibers and method of fabrication thereof" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,869, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Carbon fibers and method of fabrication thereof" was invented by Muhammad Ghassan Salim (Cranberry Township, Pa.), Haitao Liu (Wexford, Pa.), Tevis Davis Jacobs (Pittsburgh), Min A Kim (Albany, Calif.) and Luke Anthony Thimons (Natrona Heights, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a fiber includes providing a sheet of a single layer of graphene or an oxidative analogue of graphene and applying force to the sheet to induce bending in the sheet and increase an aspect ratio thereof, thereby for...