US Patent Issued to Messer on March 4 for "Method and device for separating a gas mixture containing diborane and hydrogen" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,759, issued on March 4, was assigned to Messer SE & Co. KGaA (Bad Soden, Germany).

"Method and device for separating a gas mixture containing diborane and hydrogen" was invented by Friedhelm Herzog (Krefeld, Germany) and Joachim Barbe (Tonisvorst, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to separate diborane from a gas mixture containing diborane and hydrogen, the gas mixture is normally cooled in a storage tank using liquid nitrogen, wherein the diborane freezes out. In order to enable an extensively continuous separation of the diborane from the gas mixture, according to the invention, the gas mixture is brought into thermal...