US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Sept. 22 for "Membrane for collecting airborne particles" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,287, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Membrane for collecting airborne particles" was invented by Guillaume Blaire (Grenoble Cedex, France), Manuel Alessio (Grenoble Cedex, France), Melissa Baque (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Jean-Maxime Roux (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A membrane for collecting airborne particles, the membrane taking the form of a strip composed of a matrix formed from a mixture of a polymer and of a filler that is made of an electrical conductor, a hydrophilic layer for collecting particles, on which layer is depo...