US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, CarbonBuilt on July 8 for "Integration of direct air capture system into CO 2 mineralization process of concretes and aggregates" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,527, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and CarbonBuilt (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).

"Integration of direct air capture system into CO 2 mineralization process of concretes and aggregates" was invented by Gaurav Sant (Los Angeles), Dante Simonetti (Los Angeles), Iman Mehdipour (Los Angeles), David Jassby (Los Angeles) and Yenwen Tseng (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a concrete product includes directly capturing CO2 from a gas source, the capturing comprising contacting the gas source with an absorption solution having a solvent and a solute, wh...