US Patent Issued to University of Surrey on Feb. 24 for "Mesoporous phosphate based glass" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,412, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to University of Surrey (Surrey, Great Britain).

"Mesoporous phosphate based glass" was invented by Farzad Foroutan (Surrey, Great Britain) and Daniela Carta (Surrey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method of producing a mesoporous phosphate-based glass. The method comprises (a) contacting a phosphate with an alcohol and/or a glycol ether to create a reaction mixture; (b) contacting the reaction mixture with alkali metal cations and/or alkaline earth metal cations; (c) contacting the alcohol, the glycol ether or the reaction mixture with a surfactant, wherein...