US Patent Issued to Abilene Christian University on Oct. 14 for "Methods for the purification of molybdenum-99 with phase transfer agents" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,626, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Abilene Christian University (Abilene, Texas).

"Methods for the purification of molybdenum-99 with phase transfer agents" was invented by Kim Pamplin (Abilene, Texas) and Diego Zometa (Abilene, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed towards methods for isolating molybdenum compounds from a mixture of fission products. The mixture of fission products may be extracted from a molten salt reactor system. Utilizing a phase transfer agent, the molybdenum compounds may be extracted from an aqueous solution into an organic solution, thereby isolating the molybdenum compo...