US Patent Issued to Monolith Materials on June 30 for "High temperature heat integration method of making carbon black" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,702, issued on June 30, was assigned to Monolith Materials Inc. (Lincoln, Neb.).

"High temperature heat integration method of making carbon black" was invented by Peter Louis Johnson (Mountain View, Calif.) and Roscoe W. Taylor (Kingwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high temperature heat integration method of making carbon black. A method of making carbon black is described, including reacting a carbon black forming feedstock with hydrogen gas in a plasma reactor to produce effluent gas containing carbon black and unused hydrogen, cooling the effluent gas for further processing, and recycling the unused hydrogen back into ...