US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Aug. 11 for "Carbon sorbent-azobenzene hybrids for carbon capture and methods of producing and/or using said hybrids" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,965, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Carbon sorbent-azobenzene hybrids for carbon capture and methods of producing and/or using said hybrids" was invented by Richa Sharma (Cambridge, Mass.) and Z. Frank Zheng (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modified carbon-based sorbents configured for improved carbon capture, methods for increasing CO2 capture potential of modified carbon-based sorbents, and methods for improving noncovalent interactions of modified carbon-based sorbents with CO2, N2, and H2 are disclosed herein. The modified carbon-based sorbents have porous c...