US Patent Issued to SEB on May 20 for "Sol-gel material absorbing aldehydes and ketones, and the process for its preparation" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,867, issued on May 20, was assigned to SEB S.A. (France).

"Sol-gel material absorbing aldehydes and ketones, and the process for its preparation" was invented by Mickael Gineys (La Mure, France), Frederic Hammel (La Ciotat, France), Denis Paccaud (Lyons, France), Mathilde Sibeaud (Lyons, France) and Marie-Pierre Som (Montelier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns an adsorbent porous sol-gel material comprising at least-silane oxides;-an inorganic and/or organic acid with a boiling temperature higher than 100deg C.;-a molecular probe of general formula (I) or one of the salts of same in which R1, R2, R...