US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on June 30 for "Particulate porous inorganic material based on a lead vanadate or phosphovanadate, useful for capturing and conditioning gaseous iodine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,821, issued on June 30, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Particulate porous inorganic material based on a lead vanadate or phosphovanadate, useful for capturing and conditioning gaseous iodine" was invented by Lionel Campayo (Bagnols-sur-Ceze, France) and Raphael Penelope (Villeneuve-la-Garenne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inorganic material in a form of open-porosity particles, each of the particles comprising a lead vanadate or phosphovanadate of formula Pb3-xXx(VO4)2-2y(PO4)2y, wherein x=0 or xless than0 but less than equal to0.33; y=0 or yless than0 but greater ...