ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,926, issued on April 15, was assigned to LanzaTech Inc. (Skokie, Ill.).
"Reactor having dynamic sparger" was invented by Mayur Sathe (Skokie, Ill.), Joss Anton Coombes (Chicago), Robert John Conrado (Washington) and Gregory Joseph Morin (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods relating to dynamic spargers for generating fine bubbles within reactors such as biological and chemical reactors. A sparger system is positioned within a reactor and comprises a support plate, multiple annular shrouds engaged with the support plate, and spargers positioned within the annular shrouds defining a gap between an interior surface ...