US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 16 for "Nano-adhesive and surface primer compound and use thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,939, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Nano-adhesive and surface primer compound and use thereof" was invented by Kollbe B. Ahn (Goleta, Calif.) and Herbert J. Waite (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound for self-assembly onto a mineral and/or metal oxides substrate, the compound comprising a catechol group attached to an end group through a spacer group. The compound include a structure of Formula (I):"

The patent was filed on Sept. 29, 2016, under Application No. 15/764,467.

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