US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on Dec. 30 for "Electrode for nitrate reduction" (Iowa, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,371, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Iowa City, Iowa) and BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Electrode for nitrate reduction" was invented by David Cwiertny (Iowa City, Iowa), Syed Mubeen Jawahar Hussaini (Iowa City, Iowa), Ashley Hesterberg Butzlaff (Iowa City, Iowa), Charles Werth (Austin, Texas) and Chenxu Yan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nitrate-reducing electrode, and methods of making the nitrate-reducing electrode are disclosed. The nitrate reducing electrode includes catalyst particulates disposed on water permeable substrates with t...