ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,707, issued on May 27, was assigned to QINGDAO UNIVERSITY (Shandong, China).

"Preparation method for graphene oxide fiber, and fiber obtained thereby" was invented by Kunyan Sui (Shandong, China), Yanzhi Xia (Shandong, China), Na Pan (Shandong, China), Min Lin (Shandong, China), Wenxin Fan (Shandong, China), Huilin Cui (Shandong, China) and Yuyu Li (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention are a preparation method for a graphene oxide fiber, and fiber obtained thereby. A polyelectrolyte is prepared into a spinning stock solution by means of a wet spinning method, graphene oxide is added in a c...