US Patent Issued to KOOKMIN UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION on Sept. 29 for "Hybrid micro-gas chromatography column" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,529, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to KOOKMIN UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Hybrid micro-gas chromatography column" was invented by Si-Hyung Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Yeongseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a hybrid micro-gas chromatography column including a metal-organic framework (MOF) coating the inner wall of a channel, wherein the MOF is used as an adsorbent and a stationary phase for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) so that preconcentration and separation of VOCs are performed simultaneously. According to the present di...