ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,407, issued on July 8, was assigned to Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) and Yantai Zhongke Research Institute of Advanced Materials and Green Chemical Engineering (China).

"Method for modifying hydrogel lubricating coating on surface of general equipment, and hydrogel lubricating coating-modified general equipment" was invented by Feng Zhou (Lanzhou, China), Shuanhong Ma (Lanzhou, China), Yunlei Zhang (Lanzhou, China) and Zhengfeng Ma (Lanzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for modifying a hydrogel lubricating coating on a surface of general equi...