US Patent Issued to Avantium Knowledge Centre on March 25 for "Process and system for the electrochemical reduction of oxalic acid" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,669, issued on March 25, was assigned to Avantium Knowledge Centre B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Process and system for the electrochemical reduction of oxalic acid" was invented by Arnaud Mol (Amsterdam), Faezeh Esmaeili (Amsterdam), Matthew Philips (Amsterdam) and Mariana Paredinha Araujo (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns a process and a system for the electrochemical reduction of oxalic acid to glyoxylic acid. The process involves withdrawing a portion of oxalic acid-depleted catholyte from the process and contacting it with a quantity of solid oxalic acid to provide a concentrated oxalic acid solutio...