US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for generating hydrogen and magnetite from rock" (Ohio, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,576, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for generating hydrogen and magnetite from rock" was invented by Thomas Darrah (Westerville, Ohio), Vikram Rao (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Colin Whyte (Grove City, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for sequestering carbon, evolving hydrogen gas, producing iron oxide as magnetite, and producing magnesium carbonate as magnesite through sequential carbonation and serpentinization/hydration reactions involving processed olivine- and/or pyroxene-rich ores, as typically found in mafic and ultramafic igneous rock...