US Patent Issued to UOP on July 21 for "Method for post-treating catalyst coated membranes" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,970, issued on July 21, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Method for post-treating catalyst coated membranes" was invented by Xueliang Dong (Schaumburg, Ill.), Chunqing Liu (Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Howie Q. Tran (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High efficiency CCM post-treatment methods are described. A multilayer CCM mesh cage has multiple shelves. Each CCM is placed in between one or two pieces of mesh and loaded into the multilayer CCM mesh cage, which is made of mesh so that the acid or base can contact the CCMs. Multiple CCM cages can be soaked in an acid tank at the same time. A circulation...