ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,904, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).
"Metal-organic frameworks having localized defects for gas separations" was invented by Carter W. Abney (Athens, Wis.), Joseph M. Falkowski (Hampton, N.J.), Simon C. Weston (Annandale, N.J.) and Anna C. Ivashko (Denville, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are adsorption materials comprising a metal-organic framework comprising metal ions of metals, a plurality of organic linkers and one or more modulator where each modulator forms a localized defect. Each organic linker in the plurality of organic linkers creates a...