ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,552, issued on May 13, was assigned to Twelve Benefit Corp. (Berkeley, 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, an anode layer, a membrane layer arranged between the cathode layer and the anode layer, the membrane conductively connecting the cathode layer and the anode layer, in a COx reduction reactor has been d...