ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,179, issued on July 14, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Electrolysis stack" was invented by Nicolas Richet (Fontenay-le-Fleury, France), Olivier Debellemaniere (Bures-sur-Yvette, France), Guillaume Lodier (Senlisse, France), Anh Thao Thieu (Saint Cloud, France), Hakim Maazaoui (Longjumeau, France) and Florent Beille (Lans-en-Vercors, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrolysis stack, including multiple layers that are stacked along a stacking direction, wherein each of the layers includes an anode space with an anode, a cathode space with a cath...