US Patent Issued to Metasorbex on Feb. 24 for "Sorbent and method for carbon dioxide capture and recovery" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,669, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Metasorbex Corp. (Mt. Juliet, Tenn.).

"Sorbent and method for carbon dioxide capture and recovery" was invented by Edward M. Chan (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A functionalized carbon dioxide sorbent of a functionalized graphene oxide (fGO) substrate having substitution sites substituted with a functional group. The functional groups can be secondary or tertiary amines, a phosphate, a sulfonate or magnetite. The sorbent can have a binder intermixed with the fGO substrate, in the form of pellets, using a hydroxyethyl cellulose binder. A method using the functionalized sorbent pr...