ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,798, issued on July 15, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Impregnation liquid and activated carbon cloth and method of forming the same" was invented by Ching-Mao Wu (Keelung, Taiwan), Te-Yi Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Szu-Yin Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yao-Jheng Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impregnation liquid is provided, which includes (A) phenolic resin, (B) diazonaphthoquinone-based compound or a derivative thereof, (C) ionic compound, and (D) organic solvent. The weight of (A) phenolic resin and the weight of (B) diazonaphthoquinone-based compound or a derivat...