ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,551, issued on May 13, was assigned to ENEOS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Organic hydride production device and method for reusing dragged water" was invented by Atsushi Kobayashi (Tokyo), Kota Miyoshi (Tokyo), Tomomi Nagatsuka (Tokyo), Toru Takamura (Tokyo) and Koji Matsuoka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic hydride production device comprises: an electrolyzer having an anode electrode that oxidizes water to generate a proton, a cathode electrode that hydrogenates a substance to be hydrogenated with the proton to generate an organic hydride, and a membrane that moves the proton together with dragged water from the side of the anod...