US Patent Issued to The Florida State University Research Foundation on June 17 for "Photochemical separations and compositions" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,003, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Photochemical separations and compositions" was invented by Kenneth Hanson (Tallahassee, Fla.), Thomas Edward Schoenzart (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Sahan Salpage (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are photochemical separations. The methods herein can include exposing a first metal complex and a second metal complex to light to facilitate an irreversible chemical reaction to form a modified first metal complex. The modified first metal complex then may be separated from the second metal comple...