US Patent Issued to UOP on Aug. 25 for "Anion exchange polymers and membranes for electrolysis" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,968, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Anion exchange polymers and membranes for electrolysis" was invented by Haitao Qian (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Chunqing Liu (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Xueliang Dong (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Nicholas Haxel (Mount Prospect, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anion exchange polymers comprise a plurality of repeating units of formula (I). The polymer may be synthesized from a super acid catalyzed polyhydroxyalkylation reaction of monomers Ar1', Ar2', and X1' to form a neutral precursor polymer followed by a Menshutkin reaction to convert the neutral precursor polymer to the...