ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,505, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Hybrid structure, manufacturing method for the same, and fog capture including the same" was invented by Dae-Joon Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunje Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a hybrid structure including a substrate, a fluid thin film formed on the substrate, first structures formed on the fluid thin film by primary electrohydrodynamic instability, and second structures formed between the first structures and formed by secondary electrohydro...