US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 24 for "Controlled and efficient synthesis of inorganic-organic composite cementation agents with enhanced strain capacity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,177, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Controlled and efficient synthesis of inorganic-organic composite cementation agents with enhanced strain capacity" was invented by Gaurav Sant (Los Angeles), Dante A. Simonetti (Los Angeles) and Richard B. Kaner (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are manufacturing processes that include (1) subjecting precursor-containing solids to dissolution under acoustic perturbation to yield an initial slurry including dissolved precursors; (2) subjecting the initial slurry to hydrothermal synthesis to yield a subsequ...