US Patent Issued to Atlas Power Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Activated carbon production and methods therefor" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,875, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Atlas Power Technologies Inc. (Abbotsford, Canada).

"Activated carbon production and methods therefor" was invented by Ali Khosrozadeh (Abbotsford, Canada), Behzad Gorji Pour Shafiee (Abbotsford, Canada), Mohsen Sadeghi (Abbotsford, Canada), Omar Khaled Omar Bin Gah (Abbotsford, Canada) and Mitchell Miller (Mission, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When potassium hydroxide (KOH) or other activating agents are used to activate carbon, the hydrochloric acid used to remove it may damage the stainless steel equipment used in the process. Herein, water and citric acid are used to wash the car...