US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK on July 21 for "Hybrid ultramicroporous materials for water capture and release" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,996, issued on July 21, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK (Limerick, Ireland).

"Hybrid ultramicroporous materials for water capture and release" was invented by Yun-Lei Peng (Limerick, Ireland), Shiqiang Wang (Limerick, Ireland), Michael Zaworotko (Limerick, Ireland), Shaza Darwish (Limerick, Ireland) and Andrey Bezrukov (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of capturing water from a composition comprising water or water vapour using a hybrid ultramicroporous material. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing a hybrid ultramicroporous material of formula [M(L)a(X)b]; and (b) contacting the hybrid...