US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering on March 3 for "Methods for biotechnological conversion of natural gas into animal feed as a substitute for flaring and related systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,623, issued on March 3, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Methods for biotechnological conversion of natural gas into animal feed as a substitute for flaring and related systems" was invented by Timothy J. Nedwed (Houston), Lin Zhao (Spring, Texas) and Sam Aminfard (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods include providing a natural gas stream; directing a first fraction of the natural gas stream to a bioreactor including a propagating culture of hydrocarbon degrading microbes; directing a second fraction of the gas stream to a local power generator and converting the natural gas strea...