ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,787, issued on May 6, was assigned to Tiangong University (Tianjin, China), Minjiang University (Fujian, China) and Tianjin Yuzhan International Trade Co. Ltd. (Tianjin, China).

"Light-driven filtration antibacterial composite membrane and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Ting-Ting Li (Tianjin, China), Lu Yang (Tianjin, China), Heng Zhang (Tianjin, China), Bo Gao (Tianjin, China), Jia-Horng Lin (Tianjin, China) and Ching-Wen Lou (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a light-driven filtration antibacterial composite membrane and a preparation method and use thereof. The method for preparing th...