US Patent Issued to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING on July 14 for "Direct capture of CO 2 from air and point sources" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,727, issued on July 14, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).

"Direct capture of CO 2 from air and point sources" was invented by Kevin B. Daly (Jersey City, N.J.), Rodrigo F. Blanco Gutierrez (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Justin A. Federici (Doylestown, Pa.) and Micaela Taborga Claure (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for integrating direct air capture of carbon dioxide with capture of carbon dioxide from a point source. The systems and methods can include exposing an adsorbent to a low CO2 content gas flow (e.g., air) at conditions similar to ambient conditio...