US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 22 for "Electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,996, issued on July 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide" was invented by Ahmad D. Hammad (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Issam T. Amr (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for feeding carbon dioxide to a first cathode cavity of a first electrochemical cell, electrochemically reducing the carbon dioxide at a first cathode in the first electrochemical cell to carbon monoxide (CO), flowing the CO from the first cathode cavity to a second cathode cavity of a second electrochemical cell, and forming at least one of ethanol or eth...