US Patent Issued to The University of British Columbia on Feb. 24 for "Method and apparatus for producing hydroxyl radicals" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,391, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).

"Method and apparatus for producing hydroxyl radicals" was invented by Fariborz Taghipour (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for producing hydroxyl radicals in a fluid chamber in an electrochemical cell comprising at least one cathode, at least one anode and at least one source of photolyzing radiation. The method comprises causing an electrochemical cell to produce hydrogen peroxide in the fluid, and causing at least one photolyzing radiation source, such as UV-LED, to photolyze the hydrogen peroxide to...