US Patent Issued to Xiamen University on Oct. 14 for "Mesoporous sponge spicule and methods thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,439, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Xiamen University (Xiamen, China).

"Mesoporous sponge spicule and methods thereof" was invented by Ming Chen (Fujian, China), Jialiang Zhang (Fujian, China) and Xuejiao Liang (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mesoporous sponge spicule, a mesoporous material is synthesized on a surface of a sponge spicule to define the mesoporous sponge spicule."

The patent was filed on Dec. 31, 2021, under Application No. 17/566,752.

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