US Patent Issued to AMBIENT CARBON METHANE HOLDING on June 23 for "Photochemical method and device for volatile organic compound pollution control" (Swedish, Danish, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,616, issued on June 23, was assigned to AMBIENT CARBON METHANE HOLDING APS (Frederiksberg, Denmark).

"Photochemical method and device for volatile organic compound pollution control" was invented by Matthew Johnson (Lund, Sweden), Johan Albrecht Schmidt (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Silvia Pugliese (Buttigliera Alta, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for removing methane and non-methane volatile organic compound concentrations from a gas stream. The method includes exposing the target gas to a halogen gas and a light from a suitable light source having a wavelength sufficient to activate halogen gas to halogen radicals, where...