US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 1 for "CO2 conversion method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,317, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"CO2 conversion method" was invented by Hiroshi Oikawa (Wako, Japan) and Yuta Shimada (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CO2 conversion method includes: generating CO and H2O by a RWGS reaction from CO2 and H2; generating C2H4 and H2 by CO electrolysis from the CO and H2O; and using the H2 generated by the CO electrolysis as the H2 of the RWGS reaction."

The patent was filed on March 10, 2025, under Application No. 19/074,505.

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