ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,516, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Seppure Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Method of forming a cross-linked polymeric membrane" was invented by Mohammad Hossein Davood Abadi Farahani (Singapore), Alfred Jun Jie Tay (Singapore) and Keng Siang Goh (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of forming a cross-linked polymeric membrane, the method comprising: contacting a polymeric membrane with a cross-linking solution to form the cross-linked polymeric membrane, wherein the cross-linking solution comprises a cross-linker comprising at least one acyl halide functional group dissolved in a polar protic solvent. The...