US Patent Issued to FUTAMURA KAGAKU, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on March 25 for "Activated carbon for adsorbing per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds in water sample" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,565, issued on March 25, was assigned to FUTAMURA KAGAKU K.K. (Nagoya, Japan) and NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Activated carbon for adsorbing per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds in water sample" was invented by Nobuyoshi Yamashita (Tsukuba, Japan), Sachi Taniyasu (Tsukuba, Japan), Tsutomu Kousaka (Aichi, Japan), Makoto Yokoi (Minokamo, Japan), Chiharu Hori (Minokamo, Japan), Kodai Shimamura (Minokamo, Japan) and Takuya Asano (Minokamo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[OBJECT] To provide an activated carbon for adsorbing per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds in a water sample, the activa...