ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,504, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Desotec NV (Roeselare, Belgium).

"Method of regeneration of carbonaceous adsorbent and system for carrying out the method" was invented by Rikie Seynaeve (Roeselare, Belgium) and Johan Craeye (Izegem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for regeneration of carbonaceous adsorbent comprising the steps of: a) providing a carbonaceous adsorbent comprising Sulphur contaminants, b) pyrolysing of the absorbed Sulphur contaminants thereby generating pyrolysis gases containing SO2, c) burning off the pyrolysis gases in an incinerator thereby obtaining flue gases containing SO2...