US Patent Issued to STICHTING NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP on Feb. 18 for "Chromatographic separation of metals using DOTA-based chelators" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,710, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to STICHTING NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP (Petten, Netherlands).

"Chromatographic separation of metals using DOTA-based chelators" was invented by Thomas Jacobus Maria Molenaar (Petten, Netherlands) and Sander De Groot (Petten, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to use of a chelating compound for chromatographic separation of rare earth elements, actinides, and/or s-, p- and d-block metals, and to a method of chromatographic separation of chelates of rare earth elements, actinides and/or s-, p- and d-block metals from a mixture of at least two metal ...