ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,290, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Koloma Inc. (Denver).

"Hydrogen production and sulfur-carbon sequestration" was invented by Thomas Darrah (Dublin, Ohio), Colin Whyte (Dublin, Ohio), Jacob Harrington (Dublin, Ohio) and Peter Johnson (Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to producing hydrogen from a subsurface formation by injecting a reactant into the subsurface formation and reacting the reactant with the subsurface formation to form at least one of hydrogen gas or a mineralized product within the subsurface formation. The hydrogen produced is collected or one or more components of t...