ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,919, issued on April 21, was assigned to UTI LP (Vancouver, Canada).
"Multi-metal electrocatalytic system for methane oxidation" was invented by Md Golam Kibria (Calgary, Canada), Tareq Ali Al-Attas (Calgary, Canada), Mohd Adnan Khan (Calgary, Canada) and Nael Yasri (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and cells are provided for electrochemically oxidizing methane to formate, in which methane supplied to an alkaline aqueous anolyte medium comprising hydroperoxyl anions is brought into contact with an oxidation catalyst anode. The oxidation catalyst may include CuFe oxide catalytic centres supported on a nickel sub...