ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,088, issued on May 19, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Back pressure valve for carbon capture systems" was invented by Karthik Kundapur (Rosharon, Texas), Vinod Chakka (Rosharon, Texas), Arunkumar Arumugam (Sugar Land, Texas), David Gomez Ramirez (Rosharon, Texas), Brad Swenson (Rosharon, Texas) and Oguzhan Guven (Rosharon, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide for methods and apparatus related to geological carbon capture systems. Aspects disclose methods and apparatus related to back pressure valves protecting geological based carbon capture systems. These meth...