US Patent Issued to NEO Chemicals & Oxides on Aug. 19 for "Trivalent doped cerium oxide compositions for biological contaminant removal" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,578, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NEO Chemicals & Oxides LLC (Greenwood Village, Colo.).

"Trivalent doped cerium oxide compositions for biological contaminant removal" was invented by Dimitrios Psaras (Bound Brook, N.J.), Mason Reames Haneline (Orange, Calif.) and Steven P. Williams (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particulate oxide composition comprising cerium oxide, trivalent dopant, and optional additional metal oxide, other than cerium oxide and trivalent dopant, is beneficial to aid in the removal of biological contaminants, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa (e.g., amoebae), yeast and algae. This particul...