ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,740, issued on June 3, was assigned to Moleaer Inc. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for producing chlorine gas in an electrolytic cell" was invented by Federico Pasini (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Bruce Scholten (Carson, Calif.) and Nicholas Dyner (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for producing chlorine gas whereby a nanobubble generator introduces nanobubbles at a concentration of at least 106 nanobubbles per cm3 into an electrolytic cell comprising a pair of electrodes and a chlorine-containing, electrolyzable liquid, and the electrolytic cell is operated to produce chlorine gas."

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