ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,654, issued on June 9, was assigned to Hydrogen Revolution Hungary Kft. (Budaors, Hungary).
"Hydrogen storage based on aqueous formate- bicarbonate (hydrogen carbonate) equilibrium" was invented by Ferenc Joo (Debrecen, Hungary), Gabor Csaba Papp (Debrecen, Hungary), Janos Elek (Debrecen, Hungary) and Henrietta Horvath (Debrecen, Hungary).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject of the invention is a process for the hydrogenation of hydrogen carbonate in an aqueous reaction system, where the process ensures that the hydrogen carbonate, hydrogen and catalyst come into contact with each other while carbon dioxide is present in the gas ...