US Patent Issued to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING on Aug. 11 for "Multi-stage direct capture of CO 2 from air" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,947, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).

"Multi-stage direct capture of CO 2 from air" was invented by Bennett D. Marshall II (Bethlehem, Pa.), Simon C. Weston (Annandale, N.J.) and Aaron W. Peters (New Hope, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for using a multi-stage capture process for capture of CO2 from air. A first or initial sorption process is used to sorb CO2 from air. After sorption from the air is complete, the desorption step of the initial stage is used to form a secondary CO2-containing stream that is passed into one or more add...