ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,727, issued on June 3, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method for controlling a temperature in an absorber" was invented by Majed Sammak (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Parag P. Kulkarni (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an absorber having a vessel with a solvent inlet, a solvent outlet, a gas inlet, a gas outlet, and an interior volume configured to mix a gas and a solvent, wherein the absorber is configured to absorb an undesirable gas from the gas into the solvent. The system also includes at least one heat pipe coupled to the vessel, wherein the at least o...