ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,412, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Celanese International Corp. (Irving, Texas).
"Process for producing functionalized porous composites" was invented by Hendrich Chiong (Florence, Ky.), Joseph Brian Scott (Florence, Ky.) and Victoria Black (Florence, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polymer composite materials are disclosed containing one or more chemical scavengers. The polymer composites are porous and are configured to be contacted with a liquid for removing trace amounts of metals, proteins, polypeptides, polyphenols, other organic compounds, and the like. In order to produce the porous composite polymer product, one or mor...