ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,261, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CHARMSTAR CAMBRIDGE Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Gas capture using polymeric particles" was invented by Seyed Ali Nabavi (Cranfield, Great Britain), Goran Vladisavljevic (Loughborough, Great Britain) and Vasilije Manovic (Bedford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of making a polymeric material for selective adsorption of a gas. The method comprises dissolving a monomer comprising a functional group having an affinity for the gas in a solvent with a cross-linker and an initiator; emulsifying the solution in a liquid which is inimiscible with the fi...