ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,668, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Exhaust gas treatment system, absorbing liquid management apparatus, and treatment method of exhaust gas" was invented by Shintaro Honjo (Tokyo), Takashi Kamijo (Tokyo), Osamu Miyamoto (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an exhaust gas treatment system, a cooling tower cools an exhaust gas containing carbon dioxide. In an absorption tower, an amine-based absorbing liquid capable of absorbing the carbon dioxide in the exhaust gas is introduced and the carbon dioxide in the exhaust gas passing through the cooling tower is ...