US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO on Oct. 6 for "Nanostructure or microstructure and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,923, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (Tokyo).

"Nanostructure or microstructure and method for producing same" was invented by Kohzo Ito (Tokyo), Shuntaro Uenuma (Tokyo) and Yumi Shikano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a nanostructure or a microstructure comprising a plurality of cyclic molecules, each of which is provided with an opening, and a plurality of chain-like molecules, the nanostructure or microstructure being such that each of the plurality of chain-like molecules is included in skewered fashion in some of the plurality of cyclic molecules, whereby a plurality of pseudo-polyrotaxa...