US Patent Issued to University of Delaware on Jan. 13 for "Electrochemically driven carbon dioxide separator" (Delaware, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,673, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to University of Delaware (Newark, Del.).

"Electrochemically driven carbon dioxide separator" was invented by Yushan Yan (Hockessin, Del.), Stephanie Matz (Elkton, Md.), David Yan (Hockessin, Del.), Rohan Razdan (Newark, Del.) and Brian Setzler (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrochemical devices including electrochemically-driven carbon dioxide separators are disclosed, the devices including electrodes comprised of an anion exchange polymer and a charge storage compound such as nickel hydroxide and a membrane comprising an anion exchange polymer, the membrane having a channel for ...