US Patent Issued to NOURYON CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL on Feb. 25 for "Selective cathode for use in electrolytic chlorate process" (Swedish, Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,562, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NOURYON CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V. (Arnhem, Netherlands).

"Selective cathode for use in electrolytic chlorate process" was invented by Mats Patrik Wildlock (Kungalv, Sweden), Nina Natalija Helene Simic (Torslanda, Sweden), Ann Maria Cornell (Lidingo, Sweden), Balazs Endrodi (Szeged, Hungary) and Aleksandra Lindberg (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a process for the production of alkali metal chlorate in a single compartment electrolytic cell, which avoids the need for addition of sodium dichromate to the process, in which unwanted side-reactions are ...