US Patent Issued to UCHICAGO ARGONNE on April 8 for "Nanofiber filter medium for reusable facemask and filtering facepiece respirator" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,980, issued on April 8, was assigned to UCHICAGO ARGONNE LLC (Chicago).

"Nanofiber filter medium for reusable facemask and filtering facepiece respirator" was invented by Yuepeng Zhang (Naperville, Ill.), Devon J. Powers (Lemont, Ill.), Krzysztof Pupek (Plainfield, Ill.), John N. Hryn (Hawthorn Woods, Ill.), Gregory K. Krumdick (Homer Glen, Ill.) and Santanu Chaudhuri (Countryside, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reusable filters for personal protective equipment (PPE) may prevent shortages of PPE and save fabrication time, resources, and money. Disclosed is a method and system for fabrication of nanofiber filter media for PPE. T...