US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 14 for "Process of converting hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide to methane and solid sulfur on carbon-based catalysts under milder conditions with reduced carbon footprint" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,042, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Process of converting hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide to methane and solid sulfur on carbon-based catalysts under milder conditions with reduced carbon footprint" was invented by Xiao Jiang (Stoneham, Mass.), Ke Zhang (Stoneham, Mass.), Michael J. Forte (Cambridge, Mass.), Elizabeth Q. Contreras (Houston) and Sampath Bommareddy (Sugarland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for producing methane and sulfur. A first system includes a condensate separation system to separate a feed stream of mixed hydrocarbons, an acid ...