ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,989, issued on April 8, was assigned to BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Beijing).

"Ceramic-based composite material used for low-concentration formaldehyde degradation and preparation method therefor" was invented by Xiaomin Liu (Beijing), Yufeng Wu (Beijing) and Bin Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic-based composite material used for low-concentration formaldehyde degradation, and preparation method therefor belonging to the technical field of environmental engineering. The present invention comprises: utilizing an alkali metal-transition metal (i.e. A-T) alcohol solution mixed at low temperature with a TiO2 sol ...