ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Colorado. *** Nanostructured Metallic Substrates and Surfaces to Deactivate Microbes ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Aug. 5 -- COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES, Golden, Colorado has been assigned a patent (No. US 12376585 B2, initially filed Oct. 5, 2021) developed by Terry C. Lowe, Golden, Colorado, for "Nanostructured metallic substrates and surfaces to deactivate microbes." *** Methods and Systems for Exploiting Value i  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Minnesota. *** Energy-Assisted Recording Head With C-Shaped Delivery Waveguide Core ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Aug. 5 -- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Fremont, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12380918 B1, initially filed Feb. 15, 2024) developed by Chubing Peng, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, for "Energy-assisted recording head with C-shaped delivery waveguide core." *** Determining Relative Phase Relationsh  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Mexico. *** Closed-Loop Automation of Well Operations ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Aug. 5 -- CHEVRON U.S.A. INC., San Ramon, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12378868 B2, initially filed May 22, 2023) developed by four inventors Amine Zejli, Houston, Texas; Johannes Cornelis Visser, Midland, Texas; Tomislav Basic, Grad Zagreb, Croatia; and Kendall Caldwell Farrell, Carlsbad, New Mexico, for "Close  more