ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,700, issued on May 27.
"Wet-based catalytic system for CO2 capture, sequestration, and transportation" was invented by Terence Collier (Rowlett, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalytic system for CO2 capture and sequestration. The system includes a reduction cell for separating a liquid or vapor carrier medium having an anode generating oxygen, a CO2 cathode, and a CO precursor generating hydrogen, oxides of carbon or a hydrocarbon precursor from the carrier medium. In addition, the system includes a power supply for providing electrical power to the anode and the cathode. An electrolysis process occurs where oxygen, hydroge...