US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK on Dec. 30 for "Evaporative devices having delignified plant materials, and systems and methods for fabrication and use thereof" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,822, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.).

"Evaporative devices having delignified plant materials, and systems and methods for fabrication and use thereof" was invented by Liangbing Hu (Rockville, Md.), Chaoji Chen (Sykesville, Md.), Zhihan Li (College Park, Md.) and Jianguo Li (College Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An evaporative device has a piece of at least partially-delignified plant material. The at least partially-delignified plant material has a modified microstructure including a plurality of vessels, a plurality of fibers, and a plurality of engineered micro...