ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,497, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Nanjing University of Technology (Nanjing, China).

"Method for preparing tubular graphene composite membrane" was invented by Wanqin Jin (Nanjing, China), Kang Huang (Nanjing, China) and Gongping Liu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a graphene composite membrane on the surface of a tubular support. In the method, a tubular ceramic membrane is used as the support, a layer of graphene material is uniformly prepared on the surface of the support by vacuum suction, and the defect-free tubular graphene composite membrane is obtained by the drying process."

The pat...