ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,082, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Generate hydrogen as fuel at natural gas processing plant to reduce carbon dioxide emissions" was invented by Wael F. Blaies (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed A. Al-Mahmood (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed A. AlQahtani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Fawaz A. Alwarthan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ayidh A. Qahtani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Tolga Tural (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operating a natural gas (NG) processing plant, including receiving feed natural gas and processing the feed natural gas to give product natural gas. The p...