US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Sept. 22 for "Method and device for producing carbon monoxide from carbon dioxide" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,876, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Method and device for producing carbon monoxide from carbon dioxide" was invented by Thomas Reichbauer (Allershausen, Germany), Gunter Schmid (Hemhofen, Germany), Andre Klinger (Nuremberg, Germany) and Yashar Musayev (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for producing CO from CO2, wherein the reaction proceeds via a formate of the formula HNR1R2H+ HCO2- and/or an amide of the formula HCONR1R2, R1 and R2 being the same or different and being selected from hydrogen and substituted and unsubstituted alkyl groups ha...