US Patent Issued to Carbyon Holding on April 21 for "Device and process for the direct carbon dioxide capture from air" (Belgian, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,671, issued on April 21, was assigned to Carbyon Holding B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Device and process for the direct carbon dioxide capture from air" was invented by Hans Maria Paul De Neve (Turnhout, Belgium), Jasper Anne Frido Marikus Simons (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Dries Van Eyck (Turnhout, Belgium) and Aswin Schouten (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is based on the use of surface adsorption to capture CO2 molecules from air, without requiring the need for bulk absorption within the bulk of the sorbent. Since surface adsorption is a much faster process than bulk absorption, the present i...