ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,608, issued on July 28, was assigned to VITO NV (Mol, Belgium).

"Carbon free gas diffusion electrode" was invented by Ben Jacobs (Mol, Belgium), Deepak Pant (Mol, Belgium), Diane Van Houtven (Mol, Belgium), Erwin Maes (Mol, Belgium), Jan Vaes (Mol, Belgium) and Yuvraj Y. Birdja (Mol, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel approach of obtaining a gas diffusion electrode (GDE), the gas diffusion electrodes obtained using said method and the use thereof in the electrocatalytic conversion of gaseous reactants into economically interesting reaction products. The GDEs obtained using the method of th...