US Patent Issued to Avanpore on Dec. 23 for "Apparatus and method for purification of gas mixtures" (Latvian, American, Emirati Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,640, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Avanpore LLC (Newton, Mass.).

"Apparatus and method for purification of gas mixtures" was invented by Benjamin Bikson (Newton, Mass.), Victor Krasulevich (Riga, Latvia), Sergei Potekhin (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) and Michael Gulyansky (Jurmala, Latvia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are multi-cartridge hollow fiber membrane apparatuses and methods for gas separation using them. Each external pressure type membrane apparatus contains one or more series of cartridges wherein the cartridges within each series are arranged sequentially. The retentate gas generated by each preceding ca...