ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,854, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Memzyme LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).
"Membrane supporting structures" was invented by Yongqian Gao (Albuquerque, N.M.), Rong-An Chiang (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Christopher P. Beamis (Mukilteo, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of preparing a porous robust support to host an ultra-thin enzyme-assisted membrane, and a new membrane system that can be used for gas filtration purposes to remove/separate carbon dioxide or other gases from a gas mixture such as those from power production or enhanced oil recovery or fuel production or air and recycle/collect/utilize carbon dioxide are disclosed ...