US Patent Issued to The University of British Columbia on April 7 for "Systems and methods for electrochemical generation of syngas and other useful chemicals" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,572, issued on April 7, was assigned to The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).

"Systems and methods for electrochemical generation of syngas and other useful chemicals" was invented by Curtis Berlinguette (Vancouver, Canada), Danielle Salvatore (Vancouver, Canada), Tengfei Li (Vancouver, Canada), Maxwell Goldman (Vancouver, Canada) and Eric Lees (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and apparatus for electrocatalytically converting carbon dioxide emissions and/or ambient carbon dioxide into useful chemicals are described. The process may include: removing carbon dioxide from ambient air through ...