US Patent Issued to NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY on Sept. 9 for "Virus collection matrix" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,137, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Virus collection matrix" was invented by Dean-Mo Liu (Zhubei, Taiwan), Yung-Hsin Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wen-Lien Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shu-Han Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a virus collection matrix, including: a porous gel or fibrous structure formed by a positively charged polymer material; and a plurality of ACE 2 receptors. The plurality of ACE 2 receptors are negatively charged, and distributed and covered on the surface of the porous gel or fibrous structure. The whole...