US Patent Issued to ION Clean Energy on March 18 for "Carbon dioxide capture system and method with mass transfer contactor" (Norwegian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,657, issued on March 18, was assigned to ION Clean Energy Inc. (Boulder, Colo.).

"Carbon dioxide capture system and method with mass transfer contactor" was invented by Charles Panaccione (Boulder, Colo.), Erik Everhardus Bernardus Meuleman (Boulder, Colo.), Gregory Allan Staab (Arvada, Colo.) and Nathan R. Brown (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon dioxide capture system, fluid contactor and method are disclosed. In embodiments, a gas-liquid contactor unit is disposed along a process fluid flow axis and includes a contactor of network flow diversions barriers with flow voids for movement of process fluids therebetw...