US Patent Issued to Controlamatics on May 13 for "Process for producing highly activated electrode through electro-activation" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,801, issued on May 13, was assigned to Controlamatics Corp. (Park Ridge, N.J.).

"Process for producing highly activated electrode through electro-activation" was invented by Dino Favetta (Cedar Knolls, N.J.), Tao Chen (Jersey City, N.J.) and Eric P. Boon (Bloomfield, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating a carbonaceous biochar electrode with an applied electric potential and resulting electric current, while submerged in an electrolyte, is disclosed in order to increase the biochar electrode's pore surface area and pore hierarchy, to affect a cleaning of unwanted materials and compounds from within the electrode a...