US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Silica-based particle with hydroxy-terminated PEG bonding and methoxy-terminated PEG surface modification" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,865, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Silica-based particle with hydroxy-terminated PEG bonding and methoxy-terminated PEG surface modification" was invented by Nicole L. Lawrence (Stafford Springs, Conn.), Yeliz Tunc Sarisozen (Westford, Mass.), Darryl W. Brousmiche (Grafton, Mass.) and Matthew A. Lauber (North Smithfield, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to stationary phase materials for performing size exclusion chromatography. Embodiments of the present disclosure feature hydroxy-terminated polyethylene glycol surface modified silica particle sta...