US Patent Issued to GENESEE VALLEY INNOVATIONS on July 21 for "Structured organic films containing imidazolium having cationic charge functionality and methods thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,743, issued on July 21, was assigned to GENESEE VALLEY INNOVATIONS LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Structured organic films containing imidazolium having cationic charge functionality and methods thereof" was invented by Robert Claridge (Gilford, Canada), Valerie M. Farrugia (Oakville, Canada) and David Lawton (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structured organic film (SOF) is disclosed including a plurality of segments, a plurality of linkers, and a plurality of ionic capping segments, where at least one or more ionic capping segments may include imidazolium. Implementations of the structured organic film (SOF) include...