US Patent Issued to Alliance for Energy Innovation, Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University on March 3 for "Sequestering compositions and materials" (Colorado, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,584, issued on March 3, was assigned to Alliance for Energy Innovation LLC (Golden, Colo.) and Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Israel).

"Sequestering compositions and materials" was invented by Kai Zhu (Littleton, Colo.) and Tao Xu (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a sequestering material capable of binding a target material, where the sequestering material includes a first component that includes at least one of a functional group, a molecule, an oligomer, or a polymer, and the target material includes at least one of an element, ...