US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Oct. 14 for "All-scale self-assembly and precise positioning of supraparticles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,978, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"All-scale self-assembly and precise positioning of supraparticles" was invented by Yadong Yin (Riverside, Calif.) and Dilong Liu (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed of assembling building blocks into supraparticles. The method includes applying a first solvent on a template of patterned recessed regions to wet surfaces of the recessed regions; applying a second solvent on the template of patterned recessed regions, the building blocks suspended in the second solvent; wherein the first solvent and...