US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on July 28 for "Method of chelating anions from a liquid using a composition comprising at least one macrocyclic hosting moiety" (Texas, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,180, issued on July 28, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Method of chelating anions from a liquid using a composition comprising at least one macrocyclic hosting moiety" was invented by Raul Hernandez Sanchez (Houston), Saber Mirzaei (Houston), Swati Arora (Florence, S.C.) and Victor Manuel Espinoza Castro (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of sequestering anions from a liquid including the anions includes contacting a composition comprising at least one macrocyclic moiety with the liquid. The macrocyclic moiety includes groups including an electropos...