ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,356, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Jiangsu, China).

"Method for preparing copper azide and cuprous azide encapsulated by conductive metal-organic framework" was invented by Wenchao Zhang (Nanjing, China), Chunpei Yu (Nanjing, China), Junhong Chen (Nanjing, China), Zilong Zheng (Nanjing, China), Yajie Chen (Nanjing, China), Jiaxin Wang (Nanjing, China), Bin Hu (Nanjing, China), Jiahai Ye (Nanjing, China), Zhichun Qin (Nanjing, China) and Guirong Tian (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for preparing copper azide and cuprous azide encapsulated by conduct...