ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,504, issued on July 29, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Hydrophobic organic-inorganic composite hollow fiber membrane and method of forming the same" was invented by Rong Wang (Singapore) and Yuan Zhang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to hydrophobic hollow fiber membranes, and in particular, to hydrophobic organic-inorganic composite hollow fiber membranes. Methods for forming the hydrophobic organic-inorganic composite hollow fiber membranes are also disclosed. The hydrophobic organic-inorganic composite hollow fiber membranes may be used in membrane contactor applicatio...