US Patent Issued to Newsouth Innovations, Sydney Water on July 28 for "Filtration membrane and method of production thereof" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,422, issued on July 28, was assigned to Newsouth Innovations Pty Ltd. (Sydney) and Sydney Water Corp. (Parramatta, Australia).

"Filtration membrane and method of production thereof" was invented by Xinyue Wen (Sydney), Yi You (Sydney), Xiaoheng Jin (Sydney), Heriberto Bustamante (Parramatta, Australia) and Rakesh Joshi (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite membrane is disclosed that comprises a porous polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) or nitrocellulose membrane body. The membrane also comprises graphene oxide disposed on a surface of the membrane body. An array comprising two or more such com...