US Patent Issued on Dec. 16 for "Direct air capture of carbon dioxide by inoculation of tropospheric clouds with algae" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,551, issued on Dec. 16.

"Direct air capture of carbon dioxide by inoculation of tropospheric clouds with algae" was invented by John Whittaker (Caernarfon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention comprises the deployment of a product known as RubisCO Climate Vaccine(R) or simply RCV which contains a specialised adapted culture of psychrophile algae and accelerators. This RCV is inoculated into targeted tropospheric clouds. The cumulatively large air-liquid optical interface area of clouds enables conditions for potential exponential photosynthetic algal growth and replication during which carbon dioxide is ...