US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Oct. 20 for "Polymer-functionalized magnetic particle embodiments for solute separation, and devices and systems for using the same" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,522, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Polymer-functionalized magnetic particle embodiments for solute separation, and devices and systems for using the same" was invented by Jian Liu (Richland, Wash.), B. Peter McGrail (Pasco, Wash.), Satish Nune (Richland, Wash.) and Praveen Thallapally (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of a polymer-functionalized particle for using in isolating and extracting solutes, such as rare earth metals, lithium, and the like. The polymer-functionalized particles exhibit strong resistance to agglomeration and deg...