ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,250, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Carbon molecular sieve membranes based on oxygen-free polymeric precursors" was invented by Ingo Pinnau (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Khalid Hazazi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Yingge Wang (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Bader Ghanem (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a carbon molecular sieve membrane (and precursors therefor) including a pyrolysis product of an oxygen-free ladder polymer of intrinsic microporosity. Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a...