ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,393, issued on March 17, was assigned to Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Materials, methods, and systems for reactive capture and conversion of CO 2" was invented by Daniel Ruddy (Arvada, Colo.), Anh The To (Golden, Colo.), Martha Arellano-Trevino (Golden, Colo.), William Wilson McNeary IV (Evergreen, Colo.), Chae Woon Jeong-Potter (Lakewood, Colo.) and Alex James Hill (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a first oxide that includes zinc, aluminum, and copper; and a metal that includes least one of an alkali metal and/or an alkaline earth ...