ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,365, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China) and YANSHAN UNIVERSITY (Hebei, China).

"Porous aerogel scaffold, method of preparing the same and use thereof" was invented by Chuanzhen Huang (Qinhuangdao, China), Zhichao Wang (Jinan, China), Hanlian Liu (Jinan, China), Peng Yao (Jinan, China), Wei Wang (Jinan, China), Zhen Wang (Qinhuangdao, China), Longhua Xu (Qinhuangdao, China), Shuiquan Huang (Qinhuangdao, China), Jun Wang (Qinhuangdao, China), Hongtao Zhu (Jinan, China) and Bin Zou (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for prepring a porous aerogel scaffold includes: adding a photoinitiat...