US Patent Issued to Tokyo University of Science Foundation on July 15 for "Compound, carbon dioxide absorption/release agent, carbon dioxide collection method, and carbon dioxide collection apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,865, issued on July 15, was assigned to Tokyo University of Science Foundation (Tokyo).

"Compound, carbon dioxide absorption/release agent, carbon dioxide collection method, and carbon dioxide collection apparatus" was invented by Tatsushi Imahori (Tokyo) and Ryo Motoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound represented by Formula (1): each of L1 and L2 independently represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, NH2, NHR3, NR3R4, an ester group, a carboxy group, an amide group, a cyano group, a nitro group, a halogen atom, an acyl group, CF3, O(CH2)lOCH3, a c...