US Patent Issued to NANOSEPEX on March 25 for "Nanocarbon enhanced membrane for purification and dewatering of solvents and fuels" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,558, issued on March 25, was assigned to NANOSEPEX INC. (Newark, N.J.).

"Nanocarbon enhanced membrane for purification and dewatering of solvents and fuels" was invented by Somenath Mitra (Bridgewater, N.J.), Sagar Roy (Newark, N.J.) and Sumona Paul (Harrison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanocarbon immobilized membrane (NCIM) is disclosed. The nanocarbon immobilized membrane is sized to purify different organic-water mixtures. The nanocarbon immobilized membrane can be used to purify solvents, fuels, and other organic compounds. Data using heptane-water, octane-water, fuel-water, and paint thinner-water show 99.9% separati...