ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,814, issued on May 20, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY (Kobe, Japan) and KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Photodecomposition module, photodecomposition cell, decomposition system, living environment sustaining system, and supply amount adjustment system" was invented by Tomokazu Tozawa (Osaka, Japan) and Takashi Tachikawa (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a photodecomposition module and a photodecomposition cell that have a new structure different from a known art and can decompose a decomposition liquid more effectively than those of the known art. The present inv...