US Patent Issued to Nordic Electrofuel AS on June 2 for "Production of hydrocarbons" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,789, issued on June 2, was assigned to Nordic Electrofuel AS (Lysaker, Norway).

"Production of hydrocarbons" was invented by Erling Rytter (Trondheim, Norway), Magne Hillestad (Ranheim, Norway), Rune Lovstad (Oslo, Norway) and Bjorn Oyvind Bringedal (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing syngas in a first reactor, the process comprising: feeding carbon dioxide, hydrogen and first hydrocarbons into the first reactor; at least partially oxidizing the first hydrocarbons in the first region of the first reactor; producing syngas from the carbon dioxide, hydrogen and the oxidized first hydrocarbons in a second...