US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Feb. 24 for "Treatment of acid gases using molten alkali metal borates, and associated methods of separation" (British, American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,651, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Treatment of acid gases using molten alkali metal borates, and associated methods of separation" was invented by Trevor Alan Hatton (Sudbury, Mass.), Takuya Harada (Nagoya, Japan) and Cameron G. Halliday (Wokingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The removal of acid gases (e.g., non-carbon dioxide acid gases) using sorbents that include salts in molten form, and related systems and methods, are generally described."

The patent was filed on Feb. 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/167,023.

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