US Patent Issued to Blue Planet Systems on Sept. 23 for "Ammonia mediated carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) sequestration methods and systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,232, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Blue Planet Systems Corp. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Ammonia mediated carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) sequestration methods and systems" was invented by Brent R. Constantz (Portola Valley, Calif.), Jacob Schneider (San Jose, Calif.) and Mark Bewernitz (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) are provided. Aspects of the methods include contacting an aqueous capture ammonia with a gaseous source of CO2 under conditions sufficient to produce an aqueous ammonium carbonate. The aqueous ammonium carbonate is then combined with a cation source under condition...