ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,036, issued on March 17, was assigned to KUWAIT UNIVERSITY (Safat, Kuwait).

"Marine organism infused effervescent tablet for producing enhanced suspensions" was invented by Naser Alsayegh (Safat, Kuwait), Fatemah M. Safar (Safat, Kuwait) and Manal A. Alkandari (Safat, Kuwait).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An effervescent tablet including a marine-derived biosurfactant and zinc oxide particles and a method of manufacturing the effervescent tablet are provided. The method includes providing a biosurfactant derived from nudibranch mucus, providing a ZnO powder, mixing the biosurfactant and the ZnO powder under a first set of controlled...