US Patent Issued to ACULON on Sept. 15 for "Oil-water separation systems and methods of separating aqueous emulsions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,486, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ACULON INC. (San Diego).

"Oil-water separation systems and methods of separating aqueous emulsions" was invented by Majid Monji (Poway, Calif.), Eric L. Hanson (Carlsbad, Calif.), Eric L. Bruner (La Jolla, Calif.) and Edward Hughes (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A membrane separation system is provided comprising at least two membranes in series. A first membrane in the series is oleophobic and comprises: (a) a porous substrate; and (b) an oleophobic coating layer applied to at least one surface of the substrate. A second membrane in the series is hydrophilic. The second membrane m...