ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,131, issued on June 16, was assigned to Enviro Ambient Corp. (Marco Island, Fla.).

"System and methods for carbon dioxide capture and recovery" was invented by Andrew Verdouw (Georgetown, Ind.) and Sanjeev Jolly (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from an input gas stream (e.g., flue gas from a combustion process). In particular, the system includes a CO2 absorption module that directs supersaturated CO2 process water to a CO2 recovery process. The CO2 recovery process includes a sparging seal vessel, followed by an agitator, followed by a stripper unit,...