US Patent Issued to Scotmas Group on April 22 for "Method and apparatus for generating chlorine dioxide" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,009, issued on April 22, was assigned to Scotmas Group Ltd. (Kelso, Great Britain).

"Method and apparatus for generating chlorine dioxide" was invented by Alistair Peter Cameron (Kelso, Great Britain), Nicola Louise Palmer (Kelso, Great Britain) and Thomas James Livesey (Kelso, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a method of forming chlorine dioxide comprising passing chlorous acid through a membrane including a catalyst suitable to catalyse the formation of chlorine dioxide from chlorous acid. There is also disclosed a membrane suitable for forming an aqueous solution of chlorine dioxide comprising a catal...