US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 28 for "Systems and methods for capturing greenhouse gases utilizing algae" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,412, issued on July 28, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for capturing greenhouse gases utilizing algae" was invented by Bassam M. Alghamdi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Musab M. Alqahtani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Norah A. Alkhathlan (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for capturing greenhouse gas emissions utilizing algae may comprise feeding a carbon dioxide feed stream, a recycle water stream, and light to a closed photobioreactor, thereby forming oxygen and the algae; extracting the oxygen and at least a portion of the algae from the closed photobioreactor,...