ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,637, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TODA KOGYO CORP. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Solid recovery material for carbon dioxide and method for producing same" was invented by Muneyoshi Sakamoto (Otake, Japan), Nobuya Shimo (Otake, Japan) and Eiichi Kurita (Otake, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid recovery material for carbon dioxide includes from 1% by weight to 99% by weight of sodium ferrite and from 1% by weight to 99% by weight of porous material. The material has an average particle diameter of 1 mm to 10 mm, and having a specific surface area of 5 m2/g to 1500 m2/g. An axial ratio of an average major axis diameter to an ave...