US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Oct. 27 for "Electrochemical capture of Lewis acid gases" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,664, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Electrochemical capture of Lewis acid gases" was invented by Sahag Voskian (Cambridge, Mass.), Trevor Alan Hatton (Sudbury, Mass.) and Cameron G. Halliday (Wokingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to electrochemical capture of Lewis acid gases from fluid mixtures are generally described. Certain embodiments are related to electrochemical methods involving selectively removing a first Lewis acid gas from a fluid mixture containing multiple types of Lewis acid gases (e.g., a first L...