US Patent Issued to DENSO on May 19 for "Carbon dioxide recovery system and working electrode" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,632, issued on May 19, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Carbon dioxide recovery system and working electrode" was invented by Hiroaki Umeda (Kariya, Japan) and Go Iijima (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electrochemical cell comprising a working electrode and a counter electrode. The working electrode comprises an electrode base material, a CO2 adsorbent, and a binder. Application of a voltage between the working electrode and the counter electrode causes electrons to be supplied from the counter electrode to the working electrode, and enables the CO2 adsorbent to bind to CO2 as electrons are su...