US Patent Issued to C2CNT on April 29 for "Sustainable, facile separation of the molten carbonate electrolysis cathode product" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,717, issued on April 29, was assigned to C2CNT LLC (Venice, Fla.).

"Sustainable, facile separation of the molten carbonate electrolysis cathode product" was invented by Stuart Licht (Venice, Fla.) and Gad Licht (Venice, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the separation of electrolyte from the carbon in a solid carbon/electrolyte cathode product formed at the cathode during molten carbonate electrolysis. The processes allow for easy separation of the solid carbon product from the electrolyte without any observed detrimental effect on the structure and/or stability of the resulting solid carbon nanomaterial."

The patent ...