ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,690, issued on March 17, was assigned to Twelve Benefit Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for ethylene production" was invented by Ajay R. Kashi (Berkeley, Calif.), Aya K. Buckley (Berkeley, Calif.), Sichao Ma (Dublin, Calif.), Kendra P. Kuhl (Oakland, Calif.), Sara Hunegnaw (Oakland, Calif.), Etosha R. Cave (Berkeley, Calif.) and Luka Stevic (Novi Sad, Serbia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for increasing the concentration of a desired COx reduction reaction product are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods include ethylene purification."

The patent was filed on Dec. 8, 2022, under...