US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on June 2 for "Materials and methods for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide" (Ohio, Oregon, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,190, issued on June 2, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Materials and methods for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide" was invented by Anne Co (Columbus, Ohio), Joshua Billy (Newark, Del.), Eric Coleman (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Kendahl Walz (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for electrochemically reducing carbon dioxide to provide a product. The methods can comprise contacting the carbon dioxide with an electroreduction catalyst in an electrochemical cell, and applying a potential to the electrochemical cell to form the product. The electroreduction catalyst...