US Patent Issued to Twelve Benefit, The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 25 for "Reactor with advanced architecture for the electrochemical reaction of CO 2 , CO, and other chemical compounds" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,217, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Twelve Benefit Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Reactor with advanced architecture for the electrochemical reaction of CO 2 , CO, and other chemical compounds" was invented by Kendra P. Kuhl (Oakland, Calif.), Etosha R. Cave (Berkeley, Calif.) and George Leonard (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform technology that uses a novel membrane electrode assembly including a cathode layer comprising a reduction catalyst and a first anion-and-cation-conducting polymer, an anode layer comprising an oxidation catalyst and a c...