US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Cyclopropenimines for activation of carbon dioxide" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,951, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cyclopropenimines for activation of carbon dioxide" was invented by Dino Wu (New York), Luis M. Campos (New York), Nathaniel H. Park (San Jose, Calif.), James L. Hedrick (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Junho Kwon (Bronx, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process, composition, and apparatus for carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion are disclosed. The CO2 conversion comprises reacting CO2 with a cyclopropenimine (CPI) to activate the CO2 and transferring the activated CO2 to generate a product of the transferring. The transferring also generates a con...