US Patent Issued to Twelve Benefit on Dec. 30 for "Recovery procedure for carbon oxide electrolyzers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,785, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Twelve Benefit Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Recovery procedure for carbon oxide electrolyzers" was invented by Shuai Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sichao Ma (Dublin, Calif.), Edward Izett (Berkeley, Calif.), Timothy A. Bekkedahl (Fremont, Calif.) and Kendra P. Kuhl (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and/or systems for operating a carbon oxide reduction electrolyzer may involve (a) performing normal operation at the electrolyzer; (b) performing a recovery or protection process including: (i) applying a modified current and/or voltage to the electrolyzer, and (ii) while applying ...