US Patent Issued to VITO on April 14 for "Method for generating hydrogen and oxygen from a liquid feed stream comprising water, and device therefor" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,074, issued on April 14, was assigned to VITO NV (Mol, Belgium).

"Method for generating hydrogen and oxygen from a liquid feed stream comprising water, and device therefor" was invented by Lambertus Bouwman (Mol, Belgium) and Metin Bulut (Mol, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for the generation of hydrogen and oxygen from a liquid feed stream comprising water. The method includes passing an electric current through an aqueous electrolyte solution. Water is fed to the aqueous electrolyte solution by forward osmosis, wherein the aqueous electrolyte solution is brought into contact with a first side of a for...