ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,382, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Linde GmbH (Pullach, Germany).

"Process and apparatus for removing unwanted components from a gas mixture" was invented by Matthias Grahl (Munich), Christan Horn (Munich), Gabriel Salazar Duarte (Munich) and Verena Kramer (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for removal of unwanted components from a feed gas mixture, wherein a temperature swing adsorption unit comprising at least two adsorption vessels is used, the method comprising cyclically operating the temperature swing adsorption unit in successive operation modes in each of which a different one of the at least two adsorption...