US Patent Issued to UOP on June 30 for "Composite proton exchange membrane and catalyst-coated composite proton exchange membrane" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,884, issued on June 30, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Composite proton exchange membrane and catalyst-coated composite proton exchange membrane" was invented by Chunqing Liu (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Zhihao Shang (Mount Prospect, Ill.), Xueliang Dong (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Dennis F. van der Vliet (Skokie, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Composite proton exchange membranes are described. The composite proton-exchange membranes comprise three layers including a proton exchange membrane layer, a continuous nonporous organic-inorganic composite coating layer, and a continuous nonporous cross-linked polyelectrolyte mu...