ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,070, issued on March 24, was assigned to MOLTEN INDUSTRIES INC. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Metallic based hydrocarbon pyrolysis" was invented by Samuel Shaner (Goleta, Calif.), Andrew Caldwell (Goleta, Calif.) and Brett Parkinson (Goleta, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reaction process includes introducing hydrocarbon reactants into a vessel, reacting the hydrocarbon reactants in contact with the gas phase catalyst in the vessel to produce reaction products comprising solid carbon and a gas phase product, separating the solid carbon from the gas phase products and the gas phase catalyst to produce a solid carbon product, condensin...