US Patent Issued to Marathon Petroleum on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for holistic low carbon intensity fuel and ethanol production" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,234, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Marathon Petroleum Co. LP (Findlay, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for holistic low carbon intensity fuel and ethanol production" was invented by David Whikehart (Findlay, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to provide low carbon intensity (CI) ethanol through one or more targeted reductions of carbon emissions based upon an analysis of carbon emissions associated with a combination of various options for feedstock procurement, feedstock refining, processing, or transformation, and ethanol distribution pathways to end users. Such options are selected to maintain the total CI (c...