ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,334, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Guangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University (Guangzhou, China) and Xidian University (Xian, China).

"Multifunctional surface structure for condensation enhancement and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Jingtan Chen (Guangzhou, China), Yafan Qin (Guangzhou, China), Hao Wang (Guangzhou, China), Ke Zhang (Guangzhou, China), Zhihai Wang (Guangzhou, China), Shikun Zheng (Guangzhou, China), Xiaofei Ma (Guangzhou, China), Yuanpeng Zheng (Guangzhou, China) and Congsi Wang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention belongs to the technical field of phase-ch...