ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,354, issued on March 31, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Kurashiki, Japan).

"Acidic gas separation device, air purifier, air conditioner, and acidic gas concentration device" was invented by Momotaro Kanno (Okayama, Japan), Yoshihisa Inui (Okayama, Japan) and Hideharu Iwasaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the present invention is an acidic gas separation device including: an electrolyte layer; a pair of electrodes provided with the electrolyte layer interposed between the pair of electrodes; and a voltage application unit that applies a voltage between the pair of electrodes, wherein the pair of electr...