US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Feb. 3 for "Materials for extracting toxins from tobacco" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,938, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Materials for extracting toxins from tobacco" was invented by Timothy Manning Swager (Newton, Mass.) and Ruqiang Lu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions configured to interact with organic molecules, and related articles and methods, are generally described."

The patent was filed on Nov. 4, 2022, under Application No. 17/981,233.

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