US Patent Issued to The Education University of Hong Kong on May 5 for "Method of quantifying microplastic mass" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,823, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Education University of Hong Kong (Tai Po, Hong Kong).

"Method of quantifying microplastic mass" was invented by Yiu Fai Tsang (Tai Po, Hong Kong), Yan Laam Cheng (Tai Po, Hong Kong) and Ziying Li (Tai Po, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of quantifying microplastic mass in a sample composition, including the steps of pre-treating the sample composition to remove non-microplastic organic matter and extract microplastics thereby providing a pre-treated sample composition, measuring the organic carbon content of a microplastic polymer in the pre-treated sample composition using t...