US Patent Issued to SPF TECHNOLOGIES on May 26 for "Monolithic microporous substrate for chromatographic beds" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,637, issued on May 26, was assigned to SPF TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Somerville, Mass.).

"Monolithic microporous substrate for chromatographic beds" was invented by Robert S Zeller (Boston), Gaston de los Rey (Somerville, Mass.) and Erik O. Blomquist (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices are disclosed for a separation device including a sintered polymeric monolith having polymeric microparticulate solids with a pore size from about 0.5 to about 8 microns, a porosity between about 50 percent to about 80 percent and a chromatographic uniformity characterized by an HETP (height equivalent of a theoretical plate...