US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on June 30 for "Direct air capture of carbon dioxide with nanofluidic flows" (New Mexico, Indiana, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,806, issued on June 30, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Direct air capture of carbon dioxide with nanofluidic flows" was invented by Tuan A. Ho (Albuquerque, N.M.), Yifeng Wang (Sarasota, Fla.), Susan Rempe (Albuquerque, N.M.), Timothy S. Zwier (Livermore, Calif.), Guangping Xu (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Cliff T. Johnston (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for direct air capture of CO2 (DACC) includes a membrane formed from compacted layered material and configured to draw CO2 and H2O from air on a feed side of the membrane into interlayers in the...