US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Sept. 9 for "Compositions and methods for carbon dioxide solidification" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,355, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for carbon dioxide solidification" was invented by Sriram Chandrasekhar (Houston), Taimur Malik (Houston), Behdad Aminzadeh Goharrizi (Spring, Texas) and Sujeewa S. Palayangoda (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods that can be used to sequester carbon dioxide within a subterranean formation are described. The methods can include contacting carbon dioxide present in the subterranean formation with a complexing agent, resulting in precipitation of a carbonate or bicarbonate salt of the complex...