US Patent Issued to University of Limerick on July 15 for "Particle coating method" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,574, issued on July 15, was assigned to University of Limerick (Limerick, Ireland).

"Particle coating method" was invented by Luis Padrela (Limerick, Ireland), Vivek Verma (Limerick, Ireland) and Kevin Ryan (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a particle coating on one or more items is provided. The method comprises mixing supercritical carbon dioxide with a solution comprising dissolved material for forming particles. The method further comprises spraying the mixture into a precipitation chamber (316) to precipitate particles, wherein the chamber is at a pressure below a supercritical pressure of t...