US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for hydrogen production from an underground formation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,884, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for hydrogen production from an underground formation" was invented by Harun Ates (Houston) and Ravimadhav N. Vaidya (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to systems and methods for hydrogen production from an underground formation by providing heat to a first set of fractures to convert a hydrocarbon (e.g., methane, ethane, propane) present in the underground formation into hydrogen and producing the hydrogen from a second set of fractures."

The patent was filed on May 31, 2024, under Application No. ...