ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,886, issued on Nov. 11.

"Environment control system utilizing an electrochemical cell" was invented by Bamdad Bahar (Harrington, Del.), Kryiacos Zachary (Frankford, Del.) and Jacob Zerby (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An environment control system utilizes oxygen and humidity control devices that are coupled with an enclosure to independently control the oxygen concentration and the humidity level within the enclosure. An oxygen depletion device may be an oxygen depletion electrolyzer cell that reacts with oxygen within the cell and produces water through electrochemical reactions. A desiccating device may be g, a dehum...