US Patent Issued to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVESITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on Jan. 20 for "Visible light-reactive photocatalyst for treating organic pollutants" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,070, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVESITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Daegu, South Korea).

"Visible light-reactive photocatalyst for treating organic pollutants" was invented by Woong Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Chang-Hyun Jeon (Daegu, South Korea) and Govarthanan Muthusamy (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visible light-reactive photocatalyst includes: a metal-organic framework (MOF) including pores; and an active material doped on the surface of the metal-organic framework, wherein the active material includes molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) or titanium oxide (TiO2)."

The paten...