ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,529, issued on July 14, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Energy recovery during carbon capture in preform production process" was invented by Kenneth D. Smith (East Longmeadow, Mass.), Sean C. Emerson (Broad Brook, Conn.), Haralambos Cordatos (Colchester, Conn.) and Ying She (Rocky Hill, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for energy recovery. The system includes a heat recovery unit. The heat recovery unit is configured to receive at least one of heat or steam from a methanization reactor operating to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) and supplied hydrogen (H2) via methanization to produce methane ...