US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Sept. 8 for "Gas diffusion electrode, an electrolysis system, and a method for operating an electrolysis system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,448, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Gas diffusion electrode, an electrolysis system, and a method for operating an electrolysis system" was invented by Harald Landes (Ruckersdorf, Germany) and Christian Reller (Minden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas diffusion electrode having at least two layers, of which a first layer has an electrically conductive fabric, which is embedded at least in part in a hydrophobically acting polymer matrix, and a second layer has an open porosity which has catalytically acting particles and has a thickness between 1 micro metre and 50 micro m...