US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on May 6 for "Process for preparing alkali metal alkoxides in a three-chamber electrolysis cell" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,787, issued on May 6, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Process for preparing alkali metal alkoxides in a three-chamber electrolysis cell" was invented by Philip Heinrich Reinsberg (Bonn, Germany) and Michael Horn (Niederkassel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process can be used for electrochemical preparation of an alkali metal alkoxide solution. The process is performed in an electrolysis cell having three chambers, where the middle chamber is separated from the cathode chamber by a solid-state electrolyte permeable to cations, for example NaSICON, and from the anode chamber by a diffusion barrier,...