US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA on June 17 for "Methods and apparatus for performing electrolytic conversion" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,414, issued on June 17, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, Canada).

"Methods and apparatus for performing electrolytic conversion" was invented by Zishuai Zhang (Vancouver, Canada) and Curtis P. Berlinguette (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for converting carbon dioxide to useful compounds are disclosed. The method involves reducing bicarbonate solution in an electrolyzer. Bicarbonate solution is supplied to the cathode. The direct reduction of bicarbonate at the cathode may be coupled with an oxidation reaction at the anode. The oxidation reaction may provide a sou...