ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,494, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.).

"High-throughput monodisperse aerosols of micro-shell particles" was invented by Maksym Mezhericher (Princeton, N.J.) and Howard A. Stone (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a simple method for generation of high-throughput aerosols of monodisperse micro-shell particles. To create the aerosol, small nozzles are employed blowing slightly compressed air on a thin liquid film. This allows one to generate bubble aerosols including particles having a thin liquid shell surrounding a gas core, which are suspended i...