ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,370, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tsinghua University (Beijing) and HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Carbon nanotube-transition metal oxide composite and method for making the same" was invented by Da-Tao Wang (Beijing), Li Sun (Beijing), Ke Wang (Beijing), Jia-Ping Wang (Beijing) and Shou-Shan Fan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a carbon nanotube-transition metal oxide composite and a method for making the composite. The composite comprises at least one carbon nanotube and a plurality of transition metal oxide nanoparticles. The plurality of transition metal ox...