US Patent Issued to Research Triangle Institute on July 1 for "Polyamine phosphorus dendrimer materials for metal sequestration" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,698, issued on July 1, was assigned to Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

"Polyamine phosphorus dendrimer materials for metal sequestration" was invented by Samuel John Thompson III (Durham, N.C.) and Mustapha Soukri (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides novel solid sorbents synthesized by the reaction of polyamines with polyaldehyde phosphorus dendrimer (P-dendrimer) compounds for metal sequestration. The sorbents are highly stable and exhibit desirable thermodynamics and reaction kinetics with a wide variety of metals including heavy metals and rare earth elements. The ...