US Patent Issued to MOVA Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Collecting a gaseous pollutant from air" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,406, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MOVA Technologies Inc. (Pulaski, Va.).

"Collecting a gaseous pollutant from air" was invented by Matthew F. Gulotta (Mount Airy, Md.), Jonathan M. Hager (Salem, Va.) and Christian M. James (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for collecting a gaseous pollutant from air may comprise multiple vertical panel-beds each containing a solid sorbent; a fan to pass the air through the multiple vertical panel-beds and over the solid sorbent; an outlet gate configured to release the solid sorbent from the multiple vertical panel-beds after the fan passes the air over the solid sor...