ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,836, issued on May 20, was assigned to ENTEGRIS INC. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Hydrophobic membranes and membrane distillation methods" was invented by Vinay Goel (Acton, Mass.), Jad A. Jaber (Westford, Mass.) and Saksatha Ly (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods of membrane distillation for processing organic liquids, hydrophobic distillation membranes useful for membrane distillation methods, and methods of preparing the hydrophobic distillation membranes."

The patent was filed on Feb. 12, 2024, under Application No. 18/439,151.

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