US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 7 for "Fuel production system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,105, issued on July 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fuel production system" was invented by Shiori Nakajima (Saitama, Japan) and Kota Okamura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The fuel production system includes a CH4 recoverer, an electrolyzer, a liquid fuel producer, a steam reformer that performs steam reforming of the methane and produces hydrogen, and a controller. The controller includes: a heat amount determiner that determines whether or not an amount of heat required to increase a temperature in the gasification furnace to a temperature required to gasify the biomass feedstock is less than a pre...