US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on July 29 for "Membranes, systems, and methods for concentrating liquor streams related to biomass pulping" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,499, issued on July 29, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Membranes, systems, and methods for concentrating liquor streams related to biomass pulping" was invented by Sankar Nair (Atlanta), Chen Ma (Atlanta), Meisha Shofner (Atlanta), Scott Sinquefield (Atlanta) and Zhongzhen Wang (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are membranes comprising: porous substrate; and two or more graphene oxide (GO) sheets disposed on the porous substrate, each GO layer comprising a plurality of GO flakes, each GO flake comprising a planar graphene structure with oxygen moieties extending therefrom, wherein the m...