US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 25 for "Apparatus and method for generating oxygen from sodium percarbonate and water, including seawater" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,267, issued on March 25, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Apparatus and method for generating oxygen from sodium percarbonate and water, including seawater" was invented by Carol A. Becker (Del Mar, Calif.) and Wayne E. Glad (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method generate oxygen gas from sodium percarbonate and water including seawater. The apparatus includes a chamber, a valve system, and an output port. The valve system controls combining a quantity of the sodium percarbonate, a quantity of the water, a quantity of potassium iodide,...