ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,681, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Dalian, China).

"Large-scale fabrication technique for PIM-1 asymmetric membranes doped with low-molecular-weight polyethylene glycol for gas separation" was invented by Xuehua Ruan (Dalian, China), Gaohong He (Dalian, China), Weixiang Fan (Dalian, China), Jiaming Wang (Dalian, China), Wenji Zheng (Dalian, China), Xiaobin Jiang (Dalian, China), Xiaoming Yan (Dalian, China), Wu Xiao (Dalian, China) and Qinzheng He (Dalian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fabrication technique for PIM-1 asymmetric membranes doped with polyethylene glycol for gas separation ...