ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,823, issued on March 3, was assigned to Syzygy Plasmonics Inc. (Houston).

"Photocatalytic reactor system" was invented by Suman Khatiwada (Houston), Shreya Shah (Houston), John Welch (Houston), Trevor William Best (Houston) and Braden Paul Adams (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to reactor systems that include (a) a housing having an interior surface that may be at least partially reflective, (b) at least one reactor cell disposed within an interior of the housing, the at least one reactor cell including an enclosure and a plasmonic photocatalyst on a catalyst support disposed within the...