US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Preparation method for mulberry silk that fluoresces under near-infrared light and product" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,519, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Preparation method for mulberry silk that fluoresces under near-infrared light and product" was invented by Mingying Yang (Hangzhou, China), Jie Wang (Hangzhou, China), Yuyin Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Ying Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for constructing fluorescent Bombyx Mori silkworm silk irradiated by near-infrared light and its products, comprising: (1) preparing upconversion nanoparticles, and performing surface modification with concanavalin to obtain modified upconversion nanoparticles; (2) uniformly dis...