US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Oct. 7 for "Membranes containing crown ether-containing polymers" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,204, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Membranes containing crown ether-containing polymers" was invented by Hasmukh A. Patel (Katy, Texas), Sipei Li (Cambridge, Mass.), Yang Liu (Belmont, Mass.) and Junyan Yang (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to membranes containing a polymer containing crown ether monomer units and a guest compound capable of binding thereto. This disclosure also relates to methods for making the membranes, and to methods for using the membranes for gas separation applications."

The patent was filed on Dec. 14, 2021, under Applicat...