ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,821, issued on May 20, was assigned to Spritius Technologies, PBC (White Rock, N.M.).
"Gas adsorption tree" was invented by Charles Frederick Cadieu (Burlingame, Calif.), Jose Manuel Tafoya (Santa Fe, N.M.) and Matthew Nicholson Lee (Los Alamos, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas adsorption tree includes a track of multiple, different porous descending levels each pair of the levels defining therebetween an angle of declination. The tree further includes a single exit disposed at a distal end of the track. Finally, the tree includes multiple, different gas adsorbent spheres each traversing each of the levels of the track towar...