ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,620, issued on May 26, was assigned to China Academy of Safety Science and Technology (Beijing).

"Method for preparing coated MOFs by self-assembly of intumescent flame retardant" was invented by Congling Shi (Beijing), Xiaodong Qian (Beijing), Jingyun Jing (Beijing), Honglei Che (Beijing) and Mei Wan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing an MOFs flame retardant modified by layer-by-layer self-assembly of an intumescent flame retardant is provided. The method mainly includes the steps of preparing MOFs, a positive electrolyte solution, and a negative electrolyte solution; dispersing the MOFs in the negative el...