ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,951, issued on July 15, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Composite membrane and methods of fabrication thereof" was invented by Guimin Shi (Singapore) and Tai-Shung Neal Chung (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates, in general terms, to a composite membrane for use in filtration. The present invention also relates to a method of fabricating the composite membrane, and a method of filtrating using the composite membrane as disclosed herein. The method of fabricating a composite membrane comprising contacting a perfluorinated polymer solution with a surface of a polymer lay...