US Patent Issued to NANOMIST TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 22 for "Method and apparatus for producing carbonate salts" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,880, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NANOMIST TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Tokushima, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for producing carbonate salts" was invented by Kazuo Matsuura (Tokushima, Japan), Toshiharu Chichibu (Tokyo), Tomoyoshi Nomura (Tokyo), Yuji Adachi (Tokyo), Soichiro Shimada (Tokyo) and Shingo Tomemori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Carbonate salts are efficiently produced from carbon dioxide in exhaust gas. The method for producing carbonate salts includes an atomizing step that forms an aqueous alkaline solution mist with an atomizer; a mixing step that mixes exhaust gas with the aqueous alkaline solution mist p...