US Patent Issued to Utility Global on Nov. 4 for "Production of hydrogen via electrochemical reforming" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,306, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Utility Global Inc. (Houston).

"Production of hydrogen via electrochemical reforming" was invented by Nicholas Farandos (Bray, Ireland), Matthew Dawson (Katy, Texas) and Jin Dawson (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein discussed is an electrochemical reactor comprising a mixed-conducting membrane, wherein the membrane comprises an electronically conducting phase and an ionically conducting phase, wherein the reactor is capable of reforming a hydrocarbon electrochemically, wherein the electrochemical reforming reactions involve the exchange of an ion through the membrane to oxidize th...