ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,001, issued on March 31, was assigned to Technology Innovation Institute-Sole Proprietorship LLC (Masdar City, United Arab Emirates).

"Method for producing superhydrophobic carbon nanotube sheets" was invented by Zainab Karam (Masdar City, United Arab Emirates), Sunil Lonkar (Masdar City, United Arab Emirates), Juveiriah M. Ashraf (Masdar City, United Arab Emirates), Myriam Ghodhbane (Masdar City, United Arab Emirates), Chiara Busa (Masdar City, United Arab Emirates) and Vincenzo Giannini (Masdar City, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes methods of producing superhydrophobic carbon na...