US Patent Issued to CHANGWON NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION CORPS on March 17 for "Method for manufacturing omniphobic surface using capillary force" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,428, issued on March 17, was assigned to CHANGWON NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION CORPS (Changwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for manufacturing omniphobic surface using capillary force" was invented by Young Tae Cho (Changwon-si, South Korea), Seok Kim (Changwon-si, South Korea) and Su Hyun Choi (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a micropattern surface with a reentrant structure with hydrophobicity and oleophobicity through a simple process using capillary force. The method of the present invention includes a step of forming a resin layer...