ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,524, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

"Method for simultaneous carbon dioxide capture and valorization of industrial brine using a two-stage electrodialysis process" was invented by Jawad Mustafa (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), Ali H. Al-Marzouqi (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates) and Nayef Mohamed Ghasem (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of treating reject brine and capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) includes a two-stage electrodialysis (ED) process for producing multiple products with high purity from rejected brine and flue gas mixtures (...