US Patent Issued to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE on Oct. 21 for "Production of low carbon footprint magnesia" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,298, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Quebec, Canada).

"Production of low carbon footprint magnesia" was invented by Guy Mercier (Quebec, Canada), Louis-Cesar Pasquier (Quebec, Canada), Nassima Kemache (Quebec, Canada), Emmanuelle Cecchi (Quebec, Canada) and Jean-Francois Blais (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing magnesia can include contacting CO2-containing emissions with a magnesium-containing material to produce magnesium carbonate; subjecting the magnesium carbonate to calcination to produce a CO2 by-product and magnesia; and recycling at least ...