US Patent Issued to SOUTH 8 TECHNOLOGIES on May 26 for "Method of purifying methyl fluoride by removing dimethyl ether" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,633, issued on May 26, was assigned to SOUTH 8 TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Diego).

"Method of purifying methyl fluoride by removing dimethyl ether" was invented by Cyrus Rustomji (San Diego), JungWoo Lee (San Diego), Jim Royer (San Diego) and Jeremy Intrator (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for purifying methyl fluoride (MeF) by removing dimethyl ether (Me2O) using a lithium salt sorbent, such as LiFSI or LiTFSI, are disclosed. Contaminated MeF is contacted with the sorbent, which preferentially adsorbs Me2O due to strong Lewis acid-base interactions, yielding purified MeF. The process may involve flowin...