ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,544, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Westborough, Mass.).

"Nanoporous structures and assemblies incorporating the same" was invented by James J. Watkins (South Hadley, Mass.), Dong-Po Song (Rizhao, China) and Wenhao Li (Sunderland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclosed relate to a method of forming a composite including a carbon composite structure. The method includes disposing a precursor composition on a substrate. The composition includes a porogen component, a carbon component, and a catalyst component. The method further includes irradiating the precursor composition ...