US Patent Issued to Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology on Aug. 4 for "Metal organic frameworks" (Australian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,295, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, Australia).

"Metal organic frameworks" was invented by Leslie Yu Ming Yeo (Malvern East, Australia), Amgad Rezk (Bayswater, Australia), Heba Adel Aly Elsayed ElSayed Ahmed (Oak Park, Australia), Yemima Charlotte Ehrnst (Melbourne, Australia), Xinci Yang (Oakville, Canada) and Ninweh Jeorje (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a Metal Organic Framework (MOF), the method comprising (i) depositing a liquid comprising MOF precursors on a surface of a piezoelectric substrate, the MOF precursors comprising a metal io...