US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on Aug. 25 for "Pump free alkaline electrolyte membrane water electrolytic device" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,135, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Pump free alkaline electrolyte membrane water electrolytic device" was invented by Rongzhong Jiang (Olney, Md.), Jiangtian Li (Ellicott City, Md.), Deryn D. Chu (Potomac, Md.) and David R. Baker (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alkaline electrolyte membrane (AEM) electrolytic device is designed, assembled and evaluated for water electrolysis, composed of an anode for oxygen generation, a cathode for hydrogen generation, an AEM for anion conductive, and two internal water gas separators (...