US Patent Issued to The Curators of the University of Missouri on July 29 for "Large-scale carbon-mineralization through oxalatization" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,983, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.).

"Large-scale carbon-mineralization through oxalatization" was invented by Hongyan Ma (Rolla, Mo.) and Wenyu Liao (Rolla, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is broadly concerned with mineralization methods that assist in permanent carbon storage. The methods provide a storage mechanism for oxalic acid generated by existing or future-developed carbon capture and conversion methods that convert CO2 to oxalic acid. That oxalic acid can be injected into a subsurface rock formation containing non-carbonate rock to form ...