ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,096, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hymeth ApS (Soborg, Denmark).

"Method of compressing carbon dioxide using high-pressure electrolysis" was invented by Sumon Bishwas (Brondby Strand, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of compressing carbon dioxide, CO2, including a) generating a stream of high-pressure oxygen gas and a stream of high-pressure hydrogen gas using a high-pressure electrolyser, b) feeding a reciprocating positive displacement pump comprising a reciprocating member, with a stream of CO2, and with the stream of high-pressure oxygen gas as drive gas to actuate the reciprocating member and compress the CO2...