US Patent Issued to AVANTech on Oct. 6 for "System and method for pfas contaminated waste polymer solidification" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,143, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AVANTech LLC (Columbia, S.C.).

"System and method for pfas contaminated waste polymer solidification" was invented by James Braun (Blythewood, S.C.), Michael Reed (Columbia, S.C.) and Vahid Gholami (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) contaminated waste polymer solidification is provided. The method includes providing a pressure vessel containing an ion exchange or adsorption media; capturing a per- and polyfluorinated substance (PFAS) via ion exchange or adsorption in the pressure vessel thereby contaminating the ion ex...