US Patent Issued to NEOGEN FOOD SAFETY US HOLDCO on July 1 for "Titanium-aluminum-zirconium metal oxides" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,699, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEOGEN FOOD SAFETY US HOLDCO Corp. (Lansing, Mich.).

"Titanium-aluminum-zirconium metal oxides" was invented by Gregory W. Sitton (Minneapolis), Fuxia Sun (Woodbury, Minn.), Sarah A. Sykora (New Richmond, Wis.) and Leslie M. Horton (Hugo, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Ti-Al-Zr-O metal oxide having the formula TixAlyZrzOn, wherein x is independently 2-10, y is independently 0.5-6, z is independently 2-10, and n is independently 2x+3y/2+2z. A method of separating a mycotoxin from a matrix using a Ti-Al-Zr-O metal oxide."

The patent was filed on June 28, 2019, under Application No. 17/258,...