US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology on March 4 for "Method for producing compressed hydrogen using electrochemical systems" (Saudi Arabia, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,755, issued on March 4, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for producing compressed hydrogen using electrochemical systems" was invented by Sai P. Katikaneni (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Kunho Lee (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Joongmyeon Bae (Daejeon, South Korea) and WooChul Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of producing hydrogen in a fuel cell includes passing ammonia under pressure to an anode of the fuel cell, where the ammonia is decomposed i...