Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
17 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to NextDecade Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
17
17 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
Against 3 in 2024 and 6 in 2023
Applications published
26
2 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Environmental technology12
Chemical engineering4
Basic materials chemistry1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
26 publishedNEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Mar 25, 2025 | 12,257,546 | Devices, systems, facilities and processes for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Jul 2, 2024 | 12,025,307 | Methods, systems, and devices for flue gas cooling | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Apr 16, 2024 | 11,959,637 | Devices, systems, facilities and processes for CO2 post combustion capture incorporated at a data center | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Jan 9, 2024 | 11,865,494 | Devices, systems, facilities and processes for bio fermentation based facilities | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Dec 26, 2023 | 11,852,376 | Devices, systems, facilities and processes for CO2 capture/sequestration and direct air capture | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Nov 21, 2023 | 11,819,797 | Devices, systems, facilities and processes for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Nov 7, 2023 | 11,806,664 | Devices, systems, facilities, and processes of liquid natural gas processing for power generation | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Sep 12, 2023 | 11,754,229 | Processes, apparatuses, and systems for capturing pigging and blowdown emissions in natural gas pipelines | Chemical engineering | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Mar 28, 2023 | 11,612,855 | Processes, apparatuses, and systems for direct air carbon capture utilizing waste heat and exhaust air | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Jan 24, 2023 | 11,560,984 | Processes, apparatuses, and systems for capturing pigging and blowdown emissions in natural gas pipelines | Chemical engineering | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Jun 12, 2025 | 2025/0186936 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, FACILITIES AND PROCESSES FOR CARBON CAPTURE OPTIMIZATION IN INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Jan 30, 2025 | 2025/0035309 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR FLUE GAS COOLING | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| May 2, 2024 | 2024/0142102 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR FLUE GAS COOLING | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC · patent 12,146,659 granted from it |
| Mar 28, 2024 | 2024/0100471 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, FACILITIES AND PROCESSES FOR CARBON CAPTURE OPTIMIZATION IN INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Feb 1, 2024 | 2024/0035656 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR FLUE GAS COOLING | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC · patent 12,025,307 granted from it |
| Dec 28, 2023 | 2023/0415093 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, FACILITIES AND PROCESSES FOR CARBON CAPTURE OPTIMIZATION IN INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Oct 12, 2023 | 2023/0324043 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, FACILITIES AND PROCESSES FOR CO2 POST COMBUSTION CAPTURE INCORPORATED AT A DATA CENTER | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC · patent 11,959,637 granted from it |
| Sep 21, 2023 | 2023/0296271 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, FACILITIES AND PROCESSES FOR CO2 CAPTURE/SEQUESTRATION AND DIRECT AIR CAPTURE | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC · patent 11,852,376 granted from it |
| Sep 21, 2023 | 2023/0294037 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, FACILITIES AND PROCESSES FOR CARBON CAPTURE OPTIMIZATION IN INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
| Sep 21, 2023 | 2023/0294035 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, FACILITIES AND PROCESSES FOR CO2 DIRECT AIR CAPTURE USING DIRECT MOUNTED ADSORPTION BEDS | Environmental technology | NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Environmental technology 5.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.