ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,997, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEEN (Courbevoie, France).

"MOF-based product and method for producing MOF-based products" was invented by Patrick Nguyen Van Nuoi (Vedene, France), Guillaume Comte (Saint Romain en Viennois, France) and Giovanni Massasso (Salon de Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product based on a metal-organic framework (MOF) and the method for producing same, the product containing particles bound by a binder, the binder including boehmite, the particles being essentially MOF particles and, optionally, particles of a ceramic material other t...