ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,320, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Dioxycle (Saint Ouen sur Seine, France).

"Coated electroneutral porous separators for oxocarbon electrolyzers" was invented by David Wakerley (Paris), Edward Luke Malins (Bordeaux, France), Sarah Lamaison (Paris), Renjie Liu (Paris) and Thomas A. R. Horton (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems related to oxocarbon electrolyzers are disclosed herein. A disclosed system includes an oxocarbon electrolysis reactor. The rector includes an aqueous anode area with an oxidation substrate, a gaseous cathode area with an oxocarbon species as a reduction substrate, and an electroneutra...