ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,729, issued on June 3, was assigned to INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED (Mumbai, India).

"Enzymatic phase transfer solvent for CO 2 /H 2 S capture" was invented by Prakash Chandra Sahoo (Faridabad, India), Manoj Kumar (Faridabad, India), Ravi Prakash Gupta (Faridabad, India), Suresh Kumar Puri (Faridabad, India) and Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar (Faridabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel phase transfer solvent composition for enhanced CO2 and/or H2S capture from flue gas and biogas having various gaseous compositions. Further, the present invention provides a process of preparing the phase ...