US Patent Issued to University of Kentucky Research Foundation on April 7 for "Electrochemical reactor system and method" (Kentucky, Michigan, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,576, issued on April 7, was assigned to University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Ky.).

"Electrochemical reactor system and method" was invented by Jesse G. Thompson (Lexington, Ky.), Kunlei Liu (Lexington, Ky.), Leland Widger (St. Clair, Mich.), Daniel Moreno (Hauppauge, N.Y.), Ayokunle Omosebi (Lexington, Ky.) and James Landon (Lexington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical reactor system adapted for producing a chemical product from a reactant includes (a) separate electrochemical and production cells and (b) a charge carrier compound in a catholyte adapted to effectively decouple the charging of the...