US Patent Issued to Natural Extraction Systems on Sept. 9 for "Compositions and methods related to dissolved oxides" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,152, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Natural Extraction Systems LLC (Boulder, Colo.).

"Compositions and methods related to dissolved oxides" was invented by Douglas G. Metcalf (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of this patent document relate to compositions that comprise an anion that is the conjugate base of a hydrophobic molecule that has a pKa, for example, of at least 7 and no greater than 12. These compositions display improved properties when formulated to interact with an organism because the anions carry negative charges that allows them to both dissolve in water-miscible liquids and maximize t...