ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,623, issued on April 14, was assigned to New Wave Hydrogen Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"Method for continuously producing hydrogen using an eight-port wave reformer" was invented by Pejman Akbari (Pasadena, Calif.), Colin D. Copeland (Pitt Meadows, Canada), Stefan Tuchler (Bath, Great Britain) and Mark Davidson (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved hydrogen generation system comprising a multi-port wave reformer in which shock and expansion waves are created in a manner causing head-on colliding shock waves and multi-stage compression where reacting gases within a eight port wave reformer are heated and compresse...