ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,046, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Charm Industrial Inc. (San Francisco).
"System and process for geological sequestration of carbon-containing materials" was invented by Edward Young (Albany, Calif.), Lina Zhu (Oakland, Calif.), Subodh Adhikari (Oakland, Calif.), Michael Tyler St Germaine (San Francisco) and Peter Reinhardt (Covina, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods and systems for injecting and/or sequestering carbon-containing materials in underground wells, and, in some examples, for using the carbon-containing materials for enhanced oil recovery and well abandonment. An example method ...