US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on Sept. 30 for "Electrochemical synthesis of cementitious compounds" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,738, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"Electrochemical synthesis of cementitious compounds" was invented by Gregory Houchins (Pittsburgh) and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the present disclosure pertains to methods for the electrochemical production of calcium silicate compounds in an electrochemical cell that comprises (a) a Ca-based electrode that comprises calcium metal or an inorganic calcium material, (b) an SiOx-based electrode that comprises a SiOx material, where x ranges from 1 to 2, and (c) a liquid electrolyte disposed...