ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,471, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Evercloak Inc. (Kitchener, Canada).
"Graphene oxide composite membranes" was invented by Nathan Julius Grishkewich (Kitchener, Canada), Mahshid Chekini (Waterloo, Canada), Periklis Dimitrios Alikiotis (Etobicoke, Canada), Cecilia Natalina Cancellara (Caledon, Canada) and Michael Allan Pope (Kitchener, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system involves interleaving high aspect ratio, rod-like aldehyde-modified cellulose nanomaterials (ACN) between graphene oxide (GO) sheets and utilizing crosslinkers to create a dense, crosslinked network that is highly permeable and selective to a molecule...