US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Fuel manufacturing method and fuel manufacturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,931, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Fuel manufacturing method and fuel manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Haruyuki Nakanishi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel manufacturing method for manufacturing CH4 by repeatedly performing step 1 and step 2 in this order, wherein step 1 includes: charging an electrochemical cell including a positive electrode having Ni2O3H on a surface, a negative electrode containing a hydrogen absorbing alloy, and a KHCO3 aqueous solution by an electric potential control device to accumulate hydrogen in the hydrogen absorbing alloy at the negati...