US Patent Issued to UCHICAGO ARGONNE on Sept. 16 for "System and method for biological methane gas generation and removal of carbon dioxide therefrom" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,976, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to UCHICAGO ARGONNE LLC (Chicago).

"System and method for biological methane gas generation and removal of carbon dioxide therefrom" was invented by YuPo J. Lin (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for biological methane production and removing carbon dioxide from the methane comprises (a) a primary anaerobic digester adapted and arranged to generate a gaseous mixture comprising methane and carbon dioxide from organic materials; (b) an electrochemical reactor comprising at least one reactor cell including an anode spaced from a cathode by a porous ion exchange resin wafer wi...