ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,169, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.) and SHANDONG LUTAI HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD (Jining Shandong, China).

"Ultra-lightweight graphene-HBN nanoparticle aerogels" was invented by Rodney D. Priestley (Princeton, N.J.), Craig B. Arnold (Skillman, N.J.), Hejun Li (Jining Shandong, China) and Sehmus Ozden (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultra-lightweight aerogels and methods for fabricating such aerogels from ammonia borane and a support structure, where the support structure is either two-dimensional nanostructures, or hydrocarbon polymer colloids. The components ar...