ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,830, issued on April 15, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (China) and JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY (China).

"Sustained-release antibacterial film and preparation method thereof" was invented by Tian Ding (Zhejiang, China), Mofei Shen (Zhejiang, China), Donghong Liu (Zhejiang, China), Wei Zhao (Zhejiang, China) and Jinsong Feng (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a sustained-release antibacterial film includes: (1) mixing a cyclodextrin metal-organic framework (CD-MOF) material with a silver nitrate short-chain alcohol solution to prepare an intermediate material A; (2) mixing the intermediate material A wi...