ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,215, issued on May 12, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris Cedex, France).

"Method for preparing a monolithic support on which uranyl cations are immobilised, and associated methods for capture and recovery" was invented by Carole Bresson (Palaiseau, France), Marta Garcia-Cortes (Oviedo, Spain), Claude Vidaud (Piolenc, France) and Thuy Tran (Verrieres le Buisson, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing, in the internal volume of at least one channel, a monolithic support on which uranyl cations are immobilise...