ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,410, issued on July 28, was assigned to Blue Planet Systems Corp. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Alkali enrichment mediated CO 2 sequestration methods, and systems for practicing the same" was invented by Brent R. Constantz (Portola Valley, Calif.), Chris L. Camire (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Jacob Schneider (San Jose, Calif.) and Mark Bewernitz (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of sequestering CO2 from a gaseous source of CO2 are provided. Aspects of the methods include employing an alkali enrichment protocol, such as a membrane mediated alkali enrichment protocol, in a CO2 sequestration protocol. Also provided are systems...