ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,482, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ALTR FLTR INC. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Separation of alcohol using a membrane" was invented by Richard Schatzberger (Cave Creek, Ariz.), Lyderic Bocquet (Paris), Alessandro Siria (Paris), Kathryn Maurine Orr (Phoenix) and Javier Perez Carvajal (Saragossa, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and processes are directed to filtering organic compounds using nanoporous membranes and osmosis. In various implementations, the nanoporous membrane can be trained on one or more organic compounds such that the nanoporous membrane preferentially allows the one or more organic compounds to p...