ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,653, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Johnson Matthey PLC (London).

"Process for the removal of carbon dioxide from a gas mixture containing hydrogen" was invented by Alan Bootland (Billingham, Great Britain), David Davis (Billingham, Great Britain), Jonathan Edgar (Billingham, Great Britain) and Jonathon Higgins (Billingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process is described for the removal of carbon dioxide from a gas mixture containing hydrogen by contacting the gas mixture with a shaped sorbent comprising a plurality of layers of photopolymerized resin containing particles of a molecular sieve carbon dioxide so...