US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION on July 29 for "Methods of making MOFs, systems for synthesizing MOFs, and methods of coating textiles with MOFs" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,444, issued on July 29, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Methods of making MOFs, systems for synthesizing MOFs, and methods of coating textiles with MOFs" was invented by Gaurav Giri (Charlottesville, Va.) and Luke Huelsenbeck (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of synthesis of metal organic frameworks ("MOFs") includes preparing a metal solution by dissolving at least one metal salt in an aqueous solution and buffering the metal solution with a base to achieve a first pH, the metal solution optionally comprising an organic co-solvent, preparing a linker solut...