ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,950, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOHO GAS Co. LTD. (Nagoya, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEM (Nagoya, Japan).

"Carbon dioxide recovery device" was invented by Yoshito Umeda (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroshi Machida (Nagoya, Japan), Koyo Norinaga (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroshi Yamashita (Nagoya, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon dioxide recovery device provided with a separation device that separates carbon dioxide from to-be-separated gas (for example, combustion exhaust gas) containing carbon dioxide, wherein: in order from the u...