US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station on Oct. 6 for "Silica-based nanoparticles for PFAS remediation" (Minnesota, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,323, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) and The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (New Haven, Conn.).

"Silica-based nanoparticles for PFAS remediation" was invented by Christy Haynes (Minneapolis), Riley Lewis (St. Paul, Minn.), Cheng-Hsin Huang (Minneapolis), Jason White (Prospect, Conn.), Sara Nason (North Haven, Conn.) and Nubia Zuverza-Mena (Hamden, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing an ultraporous mesostructured nanoparticle suitable for uptake by a plant and with increased affinity to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances includes modifying the ...