US Patent Issued to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for gas storage and transportation" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,863, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).

"Systems and methods for gas storage and transportation" was invented by Pavel V. Kortunov (Flemington, N.J.) and Joseph M. Falkowski (Hampton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of contacting a fluid comprising a light hydrocarbon with a metal-organic framework adsorbent having bis(pyrazolyl) ethanediimine ligands and internal pores; adsorbing the fluid in at least a portion of the internal pores of the metal-organic framework thereby creating an adsorbed fluid; storing the adsorbed fluid in the internal pores of the metal...