US Patent Issued to ELECTRASTEEL on Dec. 2 for "Carbon capture using electrochemically-produced acid and base" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,585, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ELECTRASTEEL INC. (Boulder, Colo.).

"Carbon capture using electrochemically-produced acid and base" was invented by Ai Quoc Pham (Boulder, Colo.), Sandeep Nijhawan (Boulder, Colo.), Kevin Galloway (Boulder, Colo.), Adolfredo Alvarez (Boulder, Colo.), Philip Wagner (Boulder, Colo.) and Steven Fatur (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a material for capturing carbon dioxide from the earth's atmosphere, comprises producing an acid and a base with an electrochemical acid-base generator; dissolving a mineral in the acid to produce a mineral rich solution, separating silic...