US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Fraunhofer USA on Feb. 10 for "Electrode apparatus for creating a non-uniform electric field to remove polarized molecules in a fluid" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,771, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.) and Fraunhofer USA Inc. (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Electrode apparatus for creating a non-uniform electric field to remove polarized molecules in a fluid" was invented by Qi Hua Fan (Okemos, Mich.) and Keliang Wang (Okemos, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode apparatus and method remove a polarized molecule in a fluid. In another aspect, a non-uniform electric field is created between an anode and a cathode, the fluid flows within a gap between the cathode and the anode, and the polarized molecule is driven by an electr...