US Patent Issued to UT-BATTELLE on Jan. 13 for "Carbon-capture sorbent regeneration by magnetic heating of nanoparticles" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,668, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Carbon-capture sorbent regeneration by magnetic heating of nanoparticles" was invented by Kai Li (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Kashif Nawaz (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Tolga Aytug (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Michael S. Kesler (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Edgar Lara-Curzio (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Michael A. Mcguire (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Zack Tener (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), David S. Sholl (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Mingkan Zhang (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of carbon-capture sorbent regeneration is provided. The method includes obtaining a sorbent that includes adsorbed carbon diox...