US Patent Issued to Active Minerals International on July 8 for "Product for PFAS adsorption" (Idaho, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,644, issued on July 8, was assigned to Active Minerals International LLC (Sparks, Md.).

"Product for PFAS adsorption" was invented by Bo Wang (Union City, Calif.), Thomas Scott Cortner (Spring, Texas) and Dennis Parker (Victor, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product for adsorbing one or more PFAS from a liquid is disclosed. The product may comprise attapulgite that has been surface functionalized with (a) a quaternary amine surface coating solution that comprises a mono-quaternary amine compound or a di-quaternary amine compound and (b) a mercapto surface coating solution that comprises a surface coating agent that includes on...