US Patent Issued to KEMIRA on April 22 for "Method of evaluating and optionally selecting a suitable chemistry for removal of microplastics in a liquid matrix" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,032, issued on April 22, was assigned to KEMIRA OYJ (Helsinki).

"Method of evaluating and optionally selecting a suitable chemistry for removal of microplastics in a liquid matrix" was invented by Outi Gronfors (Espoo, Finland), Mehrdad Hesampour (Espoo, Finland), Katriina Rajala (Espoo, Finland) and Lenita Lindberg (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of evaluating and optionally selecting a suitable chemistry for removal of microplastics in a liquid matrix, said method comprising using at least one coagulant and/or flocculant and measuring fluorescence intensity and light scatterin...