ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,931, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NANOPAREIL LLC (Comberton, Great Britain).
"Porous polymeric cellulose prepared via cellulose crosslinking" was invented by Steven Schneiderman (Rapid City, S.D.), Todd J. Menkhaus (Rapid City, S.D.), Yong Zhao (Middleton, Del.), Hao Fong (Rapid City, S.D.) and Craig Arnold (Sioux Falls, S.D.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to porous polymeric cellulose prepared via cellulose crosslinking. The porous polymeric cellulose can be incorporated into membranes and/or hydrogels. In preferred embodiments, the membranes and/or hydrogels can provide high dynamic binding capacity at h...