US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Oct. 6 for "System and method for direct air capture of water and CO 2" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,234, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"System and method for direct air capture of water and CO 2" was invented by B. Peter McGrail (Pasco, Wash.) and Radha K. Motkuri (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising (A) an atmospheric water extraction unit; and (B) a direct air capture unit positioned downstream of and in communication with the atmospheric water extraction unit, wherein the apparatus is capable of reversibly operating in (i) adsorption mode to adsorb water and CO2 from an incoming air stream and (ii) regeneration mode to release adsorbed water and...