US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore, Sembcorp Industries on May 26 for "Activated carbon and method of fabrication thereof" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,631, issued on May 26, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore) and Sembcorp Industries Ltd. (Singapore).

"Activated carbon and method of fabrication thereof" was invented by Chi-Hwa Wang (Singapore), Babu Cadiam Mohan (Singapore), Zhiyi Yao (Singapore) and Anbu Mozhi Thamizhchelvan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates, in general terms, to methods of forming activated carbon. The method of forming activated carbon comprises mixing carbon black with an activation catalyst and heating the carbon black in order to form the activated carbon. The present invention also relates to appl...