US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University on Jan. 27 for "System and method for resource-efficient carbon dioxide capture" (Arizona, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,624, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for resource-efficient carbon dioxide capture" was invented by John Cirucci (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Klaus Lackner (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for collecting a sorbate gas from a sorbent is disclosed, including a regeneration vessel enclosing a sorbent having a sorbate gas, a liquid water supply heated to a first temperature, and a heat pump with a condenser. The heat pump is also in contact with the water supply. Heat is removed from the condenser and used to heat ...