US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on Oct. 21 for "CO 2 utilization for co production via fuel cell enabled by CO 2 -selective membrane" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,436, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"CO 2 utilization for co production via fuel cell enabled by CO 2 -selective membrane" was invented by W. S. Winston Ho (Columbus, Ohio) and Yang Han (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are CO2-selective membranes that can be used to efficiently separate CO2 and CO. The membranes can be used to produce high-purity CO2 and CO gas streams from a feed gas stream comprising a mixture of CO2 and CO (e.g., an exhaust gas stream from a fuel cell, such as a solid oxide fuel cell). In this way, the membranes can be used with a...