US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Jan. 13 for "System and method for transportation of captured carbon" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,346, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System and method for transportation of captured carbon" was invented by David Ginter (Peoria, Ill.) and Eric Fierson (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The transportation of captured carbon from production sites to a destination at which it can be stored or used traditionally requires the carbon to be carried into a tanker truck for road transport, which is costly. Disclosed embodiments eliminate or reduce this cost by compressing the captured carbon into an existing natural gas pipeline. The existing network of pipelines can then be used to transport the...