ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,966, issued on April 7, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Recycling carbon in blast furnace gas emissions" was invented by Omar Navarro Morales (Houston) and Z. Frank Zheng (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon recycling control system may generate electricity using blast furnace gas emissions from a blast furnace, the blast furnace gas emissions including carbon dioxide. A carbon recycling control system may concentrate the carbon dioxide from the blast furnace gas emissions using a post combustion carbon capture process, the post combustion carbon capture process resulting in a carbon di...