US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on June 23 for "Method for separation of adjacent lanthanide elements" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,714, issued on June 23, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Method for separation of adjacent lanthanide elements" was invented by Santa Jansone-Popova (Knoxville, Tenn.), Ilja Popovs (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Katherine R. Johnson (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lanthanide complexing molecules having the following structure: wherein: R1, R2, R4, and R5 are independently selected from hydrogen atom, alkyl groups containing 1-3 carbon atoms, and hydrophilic groups containing at least one oxygen atom; R3 and R6 are independently selected from hydrogen atom, alkyl groups containing 1-3 carbon atoms, and hyd...