US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Oct. 14 for "Electrochemical breaking of C-C bonds" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,090, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Electrochemical breaking of C-C bonds" was invented by Marcel Schreier (Pfeffingen, Switzerland), Christine Lucky (Madison, Wis.) and Harshal Bakshi (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrochemical systems and methods for cleaving C-C bonds are disclosed. In performing the method, a reactant adsorption electrical potential, a C-C bond breaking electrical potential, and a desorption electrical potential are sequentially applied to an electrode pair contacting a composition initially containing a target chemical reactant, such as...