US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College on April 21 for "Cross-linkable zwitterionic polymers and their use in membrane filters" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,680, issued on April 21, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Cross-linkable zwitterionic polymers and their use in membrane filters" was invented by Samuel J. Lounder (Medford, Mass.) and Ayse Asatekin Alexiou (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are copolymers, comprising a plurality of zwitterionic repeat units, and a plurality of hydrophobic repeat units, wherein the hydrophobic repeat units each independently comprises a cross-linkable moiety; the cross-linked copolymer network, comprising such copolymer; as well as thin film composite membrane comprising such cross-linked copolymer...