ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,970, issued on July 22, was assigned to CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (Rome) and MEDICA S.P.A. (Medolla, Italy).

"Method for the treatment of a porous substrate" was invented by Manuela Melucci (Rome), Vincenzo Palermo (Rome), Massimo Zambianchi (Rome), Andrea Liscio (Rome), Alessandro Kovtun (Rome), Emanuele Treossi (Rome), MariaLuisa Navacchia (Rome) and Letizia Bocchi (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the treatment of a substrate; the substrate comprises hollow fibre membranes, each of which has a side wall, comprising a base material, and an inner lumen, which is delimited by the side wall; the base material ...