US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Dec. 23 for "Electrochemical reaction device, method of reducing carbon dioxide, and method of producing carbon compounds" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,778, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electrochemical reaction device, method of reducing carbon dioxide, and method of producing carbon compounds" was invented by Yuta Shimada (Wako, Japan) and Hiroshi Oikawa (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide an electrochemical reaction device in which unreacted carbon dioxide gas is less likely to be mixed in and the purity of carbon compounds generated by reduction can be improved, a method of reducing carbon dioxide using the same, and a method of producing carbon compounds. In an electrochemical reaction device 100 that electroch...