US Patent Issued to Simon Fraser University on Jan. 27 for "Immobilization of insoluble particles in polymer" (Canadian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,580, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, Canada).

"Immobilization of insoluble particles in polymer" was invented by David Terence Michael Stevens (Vancouver, Canada), Ajit Khosla (Yonezawa, Japan), Bonnie Gray (Vancouver, Canada), Daniel Leznoff (Vancouver, Canada) and Hidemitsu Furukawa (Yonezawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of immobilization of an insoluble dopant. In some embodiments, the insoluble dopant comprises a coordination polymer. In some embodiments, the insoluble dopant comprises a vapochromic coordination polymer. The method may comprise dissolving a polymer carrier in...