ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,695, issued on March 17, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Seoul, South Korea).

"System of utilizing carbon dioxide" was invented by Ung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Da Hye Won (Seoul, South Korea), Jai Hyun Koh (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Ki Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyung Suk Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Byoung Koun Min (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of utilizing carbon dioxide comprises a carbon dioxide capturing device for capturing carbon dioxide, an electrochemical reaction device for producing synthetic gas by reducing the carbon dioxide captured by the carbon dioxide capturing...