US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on April 14 for "Ion selective membranes for organic electrochemical processes" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,858, issued on April 14, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Ion selective membranes for organic electrochemical processes" was invented by Gary M. Koenig (Charlottesville, Va.), Geoffrey M. Geise (Charlottesville, Va.) and Patrick M. McCormack (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion conducting polymer comprising a modified poly(phenylene oxide) is described. In an exemplary modified polymer, a portion of the monomeric units are attached to a sulfonate-substituted arylamino moiety, such as a monovalent derivative of phenoxy aniline trisulfonate (BOATS), to form a mono...