ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,005, issued on June 10, was assigned to EOG Resources Inc. (Houston).

"Absorption medium and method for removing carbon dioxide from combustion exhaust gas" was invented by Yang Du (Grapevine, Texas), Janette Cortez (Fort Worth, Texas) and Jeremiah James Thomas (Weatherford, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an aqueous composition for removing acid gas components from a process gas includes a first cyclic amine having a substituted carbon atom alpha to an amine atom, and a second cyclic amine having two unsubstituted carbon atoms, wherein each of the unsubstituted carbon atoms is alpha to an amine atom. The co...