US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO on May 13 for "Isotopologue or isotope enrichment via preferential condensation of isotopologues or isotopes under non-equilibrium gas-surface collision conditions" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,299, issued on May 13, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago).

"Isotopologue or isotope enrichment via preferential condensation of isotopologues or isotopes under non-equilibrium gas-surface collision conditions" was invented by Steven J. Sibener (Chicago), Michelle R. Brann (Chicago) and Stephen P. Hansknecht (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are apparatus and methods for enriching and separating isotopologues or isotopes. The apparatus and methods enrich and/or separate isotopes or isotopologues present in a substantially monovelocity supersonic beam incident upon a solid surface comprising condensed fo...