ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,526, issued on July 29, was assigned to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS (Belo Horizonte, Brazil).
"Process for producing nanostructured material, product and use" was invented by Jadson Claudio Belchior (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Maria Helena Araujo (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Flavia Cristina Camilo Moura (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Sara Silveira Vieira (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Mateus Carvalho Monteiro De Castro (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Pedro Caffaro Vicentini (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Luciana Neves Loureiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The...