ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,259, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Compact Carbon Caputure AS (Bergen, Norway).

"Rotating packed bed arrangements" was invented by Asbjorn Strand (Bergen, Norway), Dag Eimer (Bergen, Norway), Oyvind Torvanger (Bergen, Norway), Jiru Ying (Bergen, Norway), Torleif Kongsbakk Madsen (Bergen, Norway) and Kari Forthun (Bergen, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a rotating packed bed, RPB, arrangement configured to provide mass transfer between a liquid sorbent and a gas, the RPB arrangement comprising: an RPB configured to provide a substantial cross-flow between a liquid sorbent and a gas; and a spray arranged ...