US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on April 1 for "Electrochemically mediated gas capture, including from low concentration streams" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,399, issued on April 1, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Electrochemically mediated gas capture, including from low concentration streams" was invented by Sahag Voskian (Cambridge, Mass.) and Trevor Alan Hatton (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to the electrochemical separation of target gases from gas mixtures are provided. In some cases, a target gas such as carbon dioxide is captured and optionally released using an electrochemical cell (e.g., by bonding to an electroactive species in a reduced state). Some embodiments are particularly...