ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,235, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"CO 2 recovery system and CO 2 recovery method" was invented by Takuya Sugiura (Tokyo), Tatsuya Tsujiuchi (Tokyo), Takuya Hirata (Tokyo), Hiroshi Tanaka (Tokyo), Junji Imada (Tokyo), Yoshitaka Shindo (Tokyo) and Takuichiro Daimaru (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CO2 recovery system includes: a combustion facility; a CO2 absorption tower that brings an exhaust gas containing CO2, which is discharged from the combustion facility and introduced into the CO2 absorption tower, into contact with a CO2 absorption liquid to remove the CO2 from the exhaust...