ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,800, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to UCL VENTURES Ltd. (London).

"Robust superhydrophobic material and coating" was invented by Manish Tiwari (Greater London, Great Britain), Zhuyan Chen (Greater London, Great Britain) and Chaoyi Peng (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a composition for forming a hydrophobic material, the composition being made by combining: a perfluorinated amine compound comprising at least two amine moieties, such as a compound made by combining a straight or branched chain C1-10 alkyl amine having at least two amine groups per molecule, with a straight or branched chain C1-12 perfluo...