US Patent Issued to Solventum Intellectual Properties on Sept. 23 for "Surface modified polyethersulfone membranes and method of making thereof" (German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,239, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Co. (Maplewood, Minn.).

"Surface modified polyethersulfone membranes and method of making thereof" was invented by Sven Frost (Essen, Germany), Pierre-Alexandre Bourgeois (Essen, Germany), Frans A. Audenaert (Kaprijke, Belgium), Tim Wolf (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Tom Opstal (Kalken, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to a polymeric membrane, comprising a modified surface obtained from coating with hydrophilic monomers and curing the hydrophilic monomers with electron beam, wherein the hydrophilic monomers comprise at leas...