ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,310, issued on March 25.
"Reactive and sorbent materials" was invented by Dominic P. Dinovo (Dublin, Ohio), Andrew Dinovo (Columbus, Ohio), Matthew F. Smiechowski (Westerville, Ohio) and Francis H. Verhoff (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reactive and sorbent materials including a non-encapsulated crosslinked biological material immobilized on a support matrix that includes a polyamine and at least one support material are described. The support material can be an inorganic or organic support material. The reactive and sorbent materials are formed by reacting the biological material with the polyamine, at least one support...