ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,334, issued on June 23, was assigned to SUZHOU UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Magnetic liquid metal processing method, liquid gripper and manipulation method" was invented by Xiangpeng Li (Suzhou, China), Jiangxia Zhou (Suzhou, China), Kaiwei Wang (Suzhou, China), Mingkui Zhang (Suzhou, China), Yue Chen (Suzhou, China) and Lining Sun (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparation of a magnetic liquid metal includes: 1) placing A parts by weight of a liquid metal in a container; 2) placing B parts by weight of a metal powder in the container; 3) adding an acidic solution into the container until the liquid metal ...