US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on July 14 for "Solvent systems for carbon dioxide capture and methods of making and using said systems" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,729, issued on July 14, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Solvent systems for carbon dioxide capture and methods of making and using said systems" was invented by Dinh Thu Nguyen (Cambridge, Mass.) and Richa Sharma (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Amine-based solvents, carbon dioxide capture systems, and methods for improving stability of carbamate during carbon dioxide capture are disclosed herein. The amine-based solvents comprise at least one cyclic amine having a first molecular site that is structurally modified to be protonated and a second molecular site that is structurally mo...