ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,298, issued on June 24, was assigned to TSINGHUA SHENZHEN INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SCHOOL (Shenzhen, China).

"Water treatment material, preparation, and use for electrically enhanced adsorptive filtration" was invented by Lin Lin (Guangdong, China), Wutong Chen (Guangdong, China), Junkuo Liu (Guangdong, China), Xiaoyan Li (Guangdong, China), Ruiquan Yu (Guangdong, China) and Zeyao Yin (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a water treatment material for electrically enhanced adsorptive filtration, and a preparation method and use thereof. In the present disclosure, a melamine sponge is carbon...