ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,936, issued on May 20, was assigned to Quatssant LLC (Monomouth Junction, N.J.).

"Method of photografting organic molecules to metallic substrates and devices having photografted organic molecules" was invented by Randell Clevenger (North Plainfield, N.J.) and Gordon D. Donald (Oceanport, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of photografting organic molecules to a metal oxide comprising: (a) contacting a substrate having a metal oxide layer on a surface thereof with an acrylate, derivative thereof or a photolabile functional group; and (b) exposing the metal oxide layer and the acrylate, derivative thereof or photolabile grou...