US Patent Issued to Universite de Fribourg on Sept. 15 for "Membrane assembly for gas separation, method for producing the membrane assembly and method of separating gases" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,487, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Universite de Fribourg (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Membrane assembly for gas separation, method for producing the membrane assembly and method of separating gases" was invented by Timur Ashirov (Fribourg, Switzerland) and Ali Coskun (Villars-sur-Glane, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns gas-separation membranes. In some embodiments, the membranes comprise nano- or microislands or non-continuous metal layers suitable to adsorb, react with and/or otherwise retain at least one of the gases to be separated from a mixture of gases. In one embodiment, the membra...