ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,601, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to VTEC Consulting LLC (Houston).

"Mobile offshore carbon capture and sequestration systems and methods using jack-up structure" was invented by John M. Vitucci (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for mobile offshore carbon capture and sequestration operations. One system includes a first installation featuring a direct air carbon dioxide capture (DAC) system, carbon dioxide dehydration, carbon dioxide compression and a second installation featuring carbon dioxide injection facilities to inject carbon dioxide into an underground reservoir or other suitable subsurface formatio...