US Patent Issued to PROMERUS on March 18 for "Supported membranes by thermal and UV initiated mass polymerization" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,668, issued on March 18, was assigned to PROMERUS LLC (Akron, Ohio).

"Supported membranes by thermal and UV initiated mass polymerization" was invented by Oleksandr Burtovyy (Akron, Ohio), Doug Skilskyj (Akron, Ohio) and Larry F Rhodes (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments in accordance with the present invention encompass a composition comprising one or more of polycyclic olefinic monomers of formula (I) and one or more monomers of formula (III) for forming anion exchange membrane optionally in combination with one or more monomers of formula (II). The composition undergoes mass vinyl addition polymerization eithe...