ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,405, issued on April 22, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Nanjing, China).

"Lead dioxide-carbon nanotube adsorptive electrochemical submicroelectrode and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Weiqing Han (Nanjing, China), Ruiqian Liu (Nanjing, China), Siqi Liu (Nanjing, China), Kajia Wei (Nanjing, China), Wei Li (Nanjing, China), Lu Wang (Nanjing, China), Lianjun Wang (Nanjing, China), Xiaodong Liu (Nanjing, China), Jiansheng Li (Nanjing, China), Xiuyun Sun (Nanjing, China) and Jinyou Shen (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the technical field of e...