US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College on Feb. 25 for "Fabrication of filtration membranes" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,383, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Fabrication of filtration membranes" was invented by Prity Bengani-Lutz (Woburn, Mass.) and Ayse Asatekin Alexiou (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of preparing a filtration membrane. The method includes providing a copolymer solution by dissolving a statistical copolymer in a mixture of a co-solvent and a first organic solvent, coating the copolymer solution onto a porous support layer to form a polymeric layer thereon, coagulating the polymeric layer on top of the support layer to form a thin film composite memb...