US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Aug. 12 for "High-performance ladder polymers for membrane gas separation" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,875, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"High-performance ladder polymers for membrane gas separation" was invented by Holden Wan Hong Lai (Stanford, Calif.), Jun Myun Ahn (Stanford, Calif.), Yan Xia (Stanford, Calif.), Zachary P. Smith (Cambridge, Mass.) and Francesco M. Benedetti (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are ladder polymers comprising fused aromatic and non-aromatic rings. Also disclosed are the manufacture and use of these ladder polymers, e.g., in ...