US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on April 29 for "Use of intermediates in solar fuels generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,711, issued on April 29, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Use of intermediates in solar fuels generation" was invented by Christoph D. Karp (Pasadena, Calif.), Alec S. Ho (Pasadena, Calif.), Xinghao Zhou (Pasadena, Calif.), Chengxiang Xiang (San Marino, Calif.) and Nathan S Lewis (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar fuels generation system includes a first reactor that contains a first solution in which a charge carrier is reduced to a reduced charge carrier. The system also includes a second reactor that contains a second solution in which the reduced charge carri...