ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,420, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Quzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Quzhou, China).

"Relay directional molecular communication method based on multiple attractants" was invented by Qiang Liu (Quzhou, China), Hao Du (Quzhou, China), Kun Yang (Chengdu, China) and Yunkai Wei (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay directional molecular communication method based on multiple attractants is applied in a field of molecular communication to address the inefficiency of existing technologies. The method for relay nodes is used by fixing three types of attrac...