ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,190, issued on May 12, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).
"Fabrication of aquaporin-based biomimetic membrane" was invented by Rong Wang (Singapore), Saren Qi (Singapore) and Ye Li (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of fabricating a membrane comprising proteoliposomes having protein water channels are provided herein. The method may include providing a porous substrate, depositing a solution containing proteoliposomes on the porous substrate, and then contacting the porous substrate with an aqueous monomer solution and an organic monomer solution to form a selective layer on the porous substra...