ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,651, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Guangzhou, China).
"System and method for promoting generation of gas hydrates by wall-climbing process" was invented by Xiaosen Li (Guangzhou, China), Yisong Yu (Guangzhou, China), Wenzhe Sun (Guangzhou, China) and Zhaoyang Chen (Guangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for promoting generation of gas hydrates by a wall-climbing process is provided. The hydrate is induced to grow upward along a wall surface, in this process, the initially generated hydrate will form many capillary channels, a re...