ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,211, issued on April 22, was assigned to Institute of Environmental and Operational Medicine, Academy of Military Medical Science, Academy of Military Science (Tianjin, China).

"Chitosan-polyacrylamide composite porous hydrogel, preparation and use thereof, and metal ion-detecting reagent and method" was invented by Shuang Li (Tianjin, China), Zhixian Gao (Tianjin, China), Dianpeng Han (Tianjin, China), Jialei Bai (Tianjin, China), Yuan Peng (Tianjin, China), Jin Wu (Tianjin, China), Kang Qin (Tianjin, China), Shuyue Ren (Tianjin, China), Yu Wang (Tianjin, China), Huanying Zhou (Tianjin, China), Tie Han (Tianjin, China) and Xiaoxiao Lin (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract*...