US Patent Issued to AXIOM ANGEWANDTE PROZESSTECHNIK GES.M.B.H. on March 17 for "Method and system for capturing carbon dioxide from the air" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,360, issued on March 17, was assigned to AXIOM ANGEWANDTE PROZESSTECHNIK GES.M.B.H. (Ebreichsdorf, Austria).

"Method and system for capturing carbon dioxide from the air" was invented by Aleksander Makaruk (Vienna) and Johannes Szivacz (Weigelsdorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for separating and recovering carbon dioxide from ambient air includes continuously bringing ambient air into contact with a basic aqueous solution; electrodialysis of the solution using bipolar and anion-selective ion exchange membranes as well as recycling the depleted solution; separating CO2 from the enriched solution and recycling the ...