ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,612, issued on June 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Carbon dioxide recovery system" was invented by Takamasa Ito (Kariya-city, Japan) and Hiroaki Umeda (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon dioxide recovery system includes: an adsorber configured to adsorb and desorb carbon dioxide; a supply channel through which supply gas passes; a storage section configured to store carbon dioxide desorbed from the adsorber; and a gas supply section supplying carbon dioxide stored in the storage section to the adsorber. The carbon dioxide recovery system is operated in an adsorption mode, a desorption m...