ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,967, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Carbon dioxide recovery system" was invented by Kaori Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinya Tachibana (Kanagawa, Japan), Tadashi Katsume (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takahito Yonekawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon dioxide recovery system includes a distillation column for heating an absorption solution having carbon dioxide absorbed therein to cause the carbon dioxide to be released from the absorption solution, a first reboiler that causes heat exchange to occur between a heating medium and the absorption solution extracted from the di...