[May 03, 2013] Los Alamos National Security Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Los Alamos National Security, Los Alamas, N.M., has been assigned a patent (8,431,689) developed by Jaqueline L. Kiplinger, Los Alamos, N.M., and Thibault Cantat, Issy les Moulineaux, France, for a "method of synthesis of anhydrous thorium(IV) complexes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method of producing anhydrous thorium(IV) tetrahalide complexes, utilizing Th(NO.sub.3).sub.4(H.sub.2O).sub.x, where x is at least 4, as a reagent; method of producing thorium-containing complexes utilizing ThCl.sub.4(DME).sub.2 as a precursor; method of producing purified ThCl.sub.4(ligand).sub.x compounds, where x is from 2 to 9; and novel compounds having the structures: ##STR00001##." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2010 (12/778,891). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,31,689.PN.&OS=PN/84,31,689&RS=PN/84,31,689 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. AM0503JA0503-873231 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]