ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,995, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOTALENERGIES ONETECH (Courbevoie, France) and THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Toronto).

"CO 2 RR-OOR electrolyser system and related process for facilitating the capture and conversion of CO 2 in gas mixture streams" was invented by Ke Xie (Toronto), Adnan Ozden (Toronto), Edward H. Sargent (Toronto), David Sinton (Toronto), Amitava Sarkar (Houston) and Shaffiq Jaffer (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a MEA electrolyser comprising a cathodic compartment operating CO2 reduction reactions (CO2RR) of CO2 from a gaseous CO2-containing str...