US Patent Issued to Grow Biotech on July 14 for "Method for selective recovery of hydrophobic compounds" (British, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,472, issued on July 14, was assigned to Grow Biotech PLC (London).

"Method for selective recovery of hydrophobic compounds" was invented by Christopher James Cordier (London), Sadaf Saad Anjum (London), Henry Alexander Fisher (London), Benjamin Thomas Langley (London), Ian Joseph Atkinson (Cochrane, Canada) and Laurence Busch Hansen (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selectively recovering a hydrophobic target substance. The method is applied to a solution of the target substance in a hydrophobic solvent. An insoluble polysaccharide is combined with the solution, the solution is passed over the insoluble polysaccharid...