ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,868, issued on May 20, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).
"Method for preparing ceramic materials and products thereof" was invented by Jian Lu (Hong Kong), Yang Yang Li (Hong Kong), Zhengtao Xu (Hong Kong) and Hao Wang (Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method of preparing a ceramic material including the steps of providing a ceramic gel comprising a plurality of metal hydroxides and a solvent; and subjecting the ceramic gel to a drying process thereby removing at least a portion of the solvent and forming the ceramic material; and ceramic gels useful for preparing molded ceramic st...