US Patent Issued to LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on Aug. 19 for "Method for preparing natural antibacterial agent by immobilizing plant essential oil in attapulgite pore channels" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,904, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Gansu, China).

"Method for preparing natural antibacterial agent by immobilizing plant essential oil in attapulgite pore channels" was invented by Aiping Hui (Gansu, China), Aiqin Wang (Gansu, China), Yuru Kang (Gansu, China), Fangfang Yang (Gansu, China) and Bin Mu (Gansu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a natural antibacterial agent by utilizing attapulgite pore channels to immobilize plant essential oil. Natural antibacterial agent plant essential oil is sprayed on the surface of attapulgite powde...