ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,917, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KOBE STEEL LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Regeneration device, gas treatment device, regeneration method, and gas treatment method" was invented by Norihide Maeda (Kobe, Japan), Akira Kishimoto (Kobe, Japan), Takuo Shigehisa (Kobe, Japan), Ken Nakanishi (Kakogawa, Japan) and Kunihiko Shimizu (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a regeneration device for heating a treatment liquid in a phase-separated state due to absorption of an acidic compound to release the acidic compound and regenerate the treatment liquid. The regeneration device includes a container for storing the treatment l...