ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,284, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to University of Southampton (Southampton, Great Britain).
"Structured gels" was invented by Richard Oreffo (Southampton, Great Britain), Jonathan Dawson (Southampton, Great Britain), Nicholas Evans (Southampton, Great Britain) and Roxanna Sharon Ramnarine Sanchez (Southampton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for assembling a clay-nanoparticle gel suitable for loading with one or more molecule species such that they are spatially structured therein, and a method for forming a clay-nanoparticle gel comprising one or more spatially structured molecule s...