US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on Dec. 23 for "Method for producing alkali metal alcoholates in an electrolysis cell" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,783, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Method for producing alkali metal alcoholates in an electrolysis cell" was invented by Philip Heinrich Reinsberg (Rheinbach, Germany), Michael Horn (Niederkassel, Germany), Rudiger Teufert (Cologne, Germany) and Marc Weiner (Troisdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing an alkali metal alcoholate solution L1 in an electrolysis cell E which comprises at least one cathode chamber KK, at least one anode chamber KA, and at least one central chamber KM lying therebetween. The interior IKK of the cathode cha...