Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7645327 - Fractal structured nanofilter

This patent is from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and teaches a way to use nanoparticles to create an improved high-efficiency particulate air filter. Claim 1 reads:

1. A filter system comprising:

a filter media that includes agglomerates or granules of nanoparticles in an amount sufficient to effect a desired level of filtration, wherein the agglomerates or granules of nanoparticles define a hierarchical fractal structure such that a plurality of agglomerates or granules of nanoparticles are bonded together to form at least one higher order agglomerate or granule.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on January 13, 2010 (boomark / email).