ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,294, issued on April 29, was assigned to JIANGSU UNIVERSITY (Zhenjiang, China).

"Preparation method of nanoscaled dye@ZIF-8-based colorimetric sensor and application thereof in food quality evaluation" was invented by Qin Ouyang (Zhenjiang, China), Yu Wang (Zhenjiang, China), Yanna Rong (Zhenjiang, China), Quansheng Chen (Zhenjiang, China), Hao Lin (Zhenjiang, China) and Zhiming Guo (Zhenjiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a nanoscaled dye@ZIF-8-based colorimetric sensor is provided, in which a ZIF-8 nanomaterial is first prepared from Zn(CH3COO)2 and the 2-methylimidazole, and then the ZIF-8 nanomaterial...