US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY a Pennsylvania Non-Profit on May 12 for "Functionalized adsorbents for the recovery of rare earth elements from aqueous media" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,415, issued on May 12, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corp. (Pittsburgh).

"Functionalized adsorbents for the recovery of rare earth elements from aqueous media" was invented by Athanasios Karamalidis (Pittsburgh), Newell R. Washburn (Pittsburgh), Clinton W. Noack (Pittsburgh), Kedar Perkins (Pittsburgh) and David A. Dzombak (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to the design and synthesis of selected ligands, dendrimers, polymers and other solid phase substrates for selective chelation of rare earth elements (i.e. lanthanides), and use of those selective ligands for syn...