US Patent Issued to InEnTec on March 24 for "Hydrogen production and carbon sequestration via high temperature cracking of natural gas in an inductively heated fluidized carbon particle bed" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,742, issued on March 24, was assigned to InEnTec Inc. (Richland, Wash.).

"Hydrogen production and carbon sequestration via high temperature cracking of natural gas in an inductively heated fluidized carbon particle bed" was invented by Jeffrey E. Surma (Richland, Wash.), Daniel R. Cohn (Cambridge, Mass.) and Leslie Bromberg (Sharon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for cracking hydrocarbons into hydrogen gas and carbon using heating of a fluidized bed. The systems and methods utilize electrically conductive carbon or graphite particles as a fluidized bed material for hea...