ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,583, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai).

"Quaternized cellulose-based resin and preparation method and application thereof" was invented by Jinming Luo (Shanghai), Jinjing Huang (Shanghai) and Kaixing Fu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a quaternized cellulose-based resin and a preparation method and application thereof. Cellulose extracted from traditional Chinese medicine waste residues is subjected to functional modification, and then grafted to a surface of chloromethylated polystyrene, so as to obtain the quaternized cellulose-based resin. The preparation method does...