ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,645, issued on July 8, was assigned to NuMat Technology Inc. (Chicago).

"Modified metal-organic framework (MOF) compositions, process of making and process of use thereof" was invented by Mitchell Hugh Weston (Chicago), William Morris (Chicago), William Joseph Hoover (Chicago), Patrick Emmett Fuller (Chicago), John Paul Siegfried (Chicago), Randi Danielle Groy (Chicago), Jeffrey Loren Wells (Chicago), Timothy Chiaan Wang (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Edwin Alfonso Argueta Fajardo (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to modified MOF materials, methods of preparing them and processes using them. A modified MOF of t...