US Patent Issued to University of Kentucky Research Foundation on Dec. 30 for "Electrochemical cell, method and apparatus for capturing carbon dioxide from flue gas and decomposing nitrosamine compounds" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,540, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Ky.).

"Electrochemical cell, method and apparatus for capturing carbon dioxide from flue gas and decomposing nitrosamine compounds" was invented by Jesse G. Thompson (Lexington, Ky.), James Landon (Lexington, Ky.), Xin Gao (Lexington, Ky.), Kunlei Liu (Lexington, Ky.), Keemia Abad (Lexington, Ky.) and Saloni Bhatnagar (Lexington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical cell includes (a) an anode including a first liquid permeable carbon cloth carbon electrode and a first current collector, (b) a cathode including a second liqu...