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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,793, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cyclopropenimines for mineralization of carbon dioxide" was invented by Luis M. Campos (New York), Dino Wu (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, apparatus, and cyclopropenimine (CPI) material for generating metal carbonates are disclosed. Generating the metal carbonates comprises reacting carbon dioxide (CO2) with CPI. Generating the metal carbonates also comprises forming a reaction mixture comprising water, metal cations...