US Patent Issued to UT-BATTELLE on Nov. 25 for "Multi-functional equipment for direct decarbonization with improved indoor air quality" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,672, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Multi-functional equipment for direct decarbonization with improved indoor air quality" was invented by Kashif Nawaz (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Brian A. Fricke (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Xin Sun (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Scott Sluder (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Constantinos Tsouris (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Michelle K. Kidder (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Christopher J. Janke (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Kai Li (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Joshua A. Thompson (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) present in air is provided. The method includes adding a carbon-diox...