ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,886, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ORGANO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Monolithic organic porous ion exchanger" was invented by Hitoshi Takada (Tokyo) and Ryouta Iwaura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monolithic organic porous ion exchanger having a continuous skeleton and continuous pores, wherein the continuous skeleton is formed of an organic polymer being a hydrolysate of a crosslinked polymer of a (meth)acrylic acid ester and divinylbenzene, the organic polymer having any one or both of a -COOH group and a -COONa group as ion-exchange groups, the continuous skeleton has a thickness of 0.1 to 100 micro metre, the continuous pores...