ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,160, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Carbon dioxide recovery system" was invented by Shinya Okuno (Tokyo), Shiko Nakamura (Tokyo), Hirohito Okuhara (Tokyo) and Miyuki Furusawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a carbon dioxide recovery system including: an absorption tower; a regeneration tower that takes in an absorbing solution that has absorbed carbon dioxide at the absorption tower, and separates the carbon dioxide from the absorbing solution using regenerated steam to regenerate the absorbing solution; first supply piping that supplies the absorbing solution regenerated in the regeneratio...