US Patent Issued to ENERKEM on Oct. 14 for "Liquid phase removal of trace of iodide from an organic media using tertiary amine ion exchange adsorbent" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,832, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ENERKEM INC. (Montreal).

"Liquid phase removal of trace of iodide from an organic media using tertiary amine ion exchange adsorbent" was invented by Charles Bureau (Monteal, Canada), Boris Valsecchi (Montreal) and Jean-Philippe Ross (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a process of removing iodides from an non-aqueous organic media comprising providing a weak base anion exchange adsorbent; and passing the organic media containing iodides through the adsorbent thereby removing the iodide from said organic media."

The patent was filed on Oct. 1, 2020, under Application No. 17/...