ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,800, issued on June 3, was assigned to HYDROLITE LTD (Caesarea, Israel).
"Fabrication of reinforced anion exchange membranes" was invented by Charly David Azra (Harish, Israel), Yauhen Akayeu (Haifa, Israel) and Amiram Sisso (Or Akiva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of preparing reinforced anion exchange membranes are provided, as well as produced membranes and corresponding devices utilizing the membranes. Methods comprise compounding a halide-functionalized polymer (selected to react with amines to yield anion-conducting quaternary amine groups) with thermoplastic polymer(s) (selected to support and/or reinforce the m...