US Patent Issued to ALTECT on March 3 for "Explosive environment neutralization in chemical energy storage" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,648, issued on March 3, was assigned to ALTECT INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Explosive environment neutralization in chemical energy storage" was invented by Kevin Marr (Austin, Texas) and Paul Lee (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to a neutralization and circulation module (NCM) configured to generate a combustion suppressant stream from a flammable intake stream. In an illustrative example, the NCM includes an intake port and an output port, each in fluid communication with a chamber containing (electro)chemical energy storage units capable of emitting combustible gases. The NCM may, for...