US Patent Issued to UOP on June 30 for "Composition with shell and core for removal of ionic contaminants" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,511, issued on June 30, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Composition with shell and core for removal of ionic contaminants" was invented by Evgeny T. Kolev (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Dean E. Rende (Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Tsukasa Tamai (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for selectively removing a first ionic contaminant from a wastewater stream. The composition is formed into a particle. The composition includes a core formed of a non-active material relative to the first ionic contaminant, and, a shell formed from an active material relative to the first ionic contaminant, wherein the a...