ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,414, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) and FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY (Fujian, China).

"Microporous hydrogen-bonded organic framework for separating propylene from propane" was invented by Banglin Chen (San Antonio), Zhangjing Zhang (Fujian, China) and Shengchang Xiang (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of using an organic framework (OF) are provided herein, including methods of using an OF comprising a repeat unit of the formula:The OFs provided herein may be used in the separation of two or more molecules from each other. In some embodiments, the mol...