US Patent Issued to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING on May 19 for "High yield synthesis of metal-organic frameworks" (Wisconsin, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,567, issued on May 19, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).

"High yield synthesis of metal-organic frameworks" was invented by Carter W. Abney (Athens, Wis.), Anna C. Ivashko (Denville, N.J.) and Gerardo J. Majano (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metal-organic frameworks are synthesized from either a high concentration synthesis where reaction solutions comprising increased reagent concentrations, or suspensions of reagents which exceed their solubility limit in the reaction solution in a high solids synthesis. In both approaches, the solubility of reagent is maximized by in...