ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,668, issued on March 25, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Method for fabricating an aromatic polymer and a polymer fabricated according thereto" was invented by Qichun Zhang (Ma On Shan, Hong Kong) and Xiang Wang (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabricating a chemical composition containing an aromatic polymer, including the steps of: providing an anodic region and a cathodic region; providing an arene precursor; providing an electrochemical potential between the anodic region and the cathodic region; reacting the arene precursor via the electrochemical potential to f...