ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,075, issued on April 14, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Apparatus and method for electrolyte solution production" was invented by Graeme Richard Wilson (Surrey, Great Britain), Timothy Edward Conway (Allentown, Pa.), Barry W. Diamond (Carmel, Ind.), Matthew William Akhurst (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Senthilkumar Nanjappan (Oprington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and apparatus for electrolyte solution production can be provided so that a modular production can be provided. The modular electrolyte production can be provided so that the production system is mobile for bein...