US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 12 for "Facilitating controlled molecular assembly of nanoscale structures via dynamic confinement of solvent" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,101, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Facilitating controlled molecular assembly of nanoscale structures via dynamic confinement of solvent" was invented by Jiali Zhang (Davis, Calif.), Victoria A. Puinova (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Liu (Davis, Calif.), Jane Frommer (San Jose, Calif.) and Gang-Yu Liu (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments provide a system that performs molecular assembly. During operation, the system delivers one or more droplets of a fluid onto a surface using a nanofluidic delivery probe and an associated high-precision...