US Patent Issued to MONASH UNIVERSITY on July 29 for "Methods of reducing dinitrogen" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,334, issued on July 29, was assigned to MONASH UNIVERSITY (Clayton, Australia).

"Methods of reducing dinitrogen" was invented by Federico M. Ferrero Vallana (Clayton, Australia), Douglas R. MacFarlane (Clayton, Australia) and Alexandr Nikolaevich Simonov (Clayton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method of reducing dinitrogen to produce at least one haloamine compound, the method comprising: contacting a cathode comprising a dinitrogen-activating electrocatalytic composition with an electrolyte; providing dinitrogen, a reducible source of halogen and a source of hydrogen for reaction at the cathode; a...