US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Oct. 7 for "Compositions, devices, and methods for improving a surface property of a substrate" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,242, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Compositions, devices, and methods for improving a surface property of a substrate" was invented by John Michael Ramsey (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and William Hampton Henley (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are compositions, devices, and methods for improving a surface property of a substrate. In some embodiments, the hydrophobicity and/or fluorocarbon-phobicity of the surface is increased. Some embodiments include compositions, devices and methods for improving bead loading and/or immiscible oil seal...