US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for forming nitrogen-based compounds" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,680, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for forming nitrogen-based compounds" was invented by Mohammadreza Nazemi (Atlanta) and Mostafa A. El-Sayed (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for forming ammonia including an anode, a cathode in electrical communication with the anode, and a catalyst material positioned in an electrical communication pathway between the cathode and the anode, the catalyst material including nanoparticles including at least one of a conductor and a semiconductor, the nanoparticles having an interior cavity, wherein the system is configured ...