ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,258, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Compositions including metal organic frame for inhibiting formation or growth of ice crystallization and preparing method thereof" was invented by Eunji Lee (Gwangju, South Korea), Nayeong Jeon (Gwangju, South Korea) and Jiyeon Lee (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition according to an embodiment includes particles of metal-organic framework (MOF) including a central metal of zirconium, and two adjacent zirconiums on a surface of the particle has a structure represented by Formula 1. The compositi...