US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on Feb. 24 for "Use of carboxylates for carbon sequestration, improved oil recovery, and hydrogen storage and reproduction" (Oregon, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,054, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Use of carboxylates for carbon sequestration, improved oil recovery, and hydrogen storage and reproduction" was invented by Ryosuke Okuno (Austin, Texas) and Gayan Aruna Abeykoon (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are compositions, techniques, methods, and systems for sequestering carbon, for producing oil, for improved oil recovery, and for storing hydrogen by way of injecting aqueous mixtures into subterranean reservoirs. The aqueous mixtures include one or more carboxylates, which can represent a...