US Patent Issued to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY on April 22 for "On-site destruction of recalcitrant perfluoroalkyl substances by molecular sieves" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,030, issued on April 22, was assigned to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (Syracuse, N.Y.).

"On-site destruction of recalcitrant perfluoroalkyl substances by molecular sieves" was invented by Viktor Cybulskis (North Syracuse, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-stage treatment process for destroying per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in an aqueous stream. The two-stage treatment process uses a combination of multifunctional crystalline molecular sieves, such as zeolites and zeotypes, to separate PFAS from the aqueous stream, catalytically decompose and defluorinate any PFAS molecules, and generate non-toxic waste products that are sa...