ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,624, issued on April 14, was assigned to SHELL USA INC. (Houston).
"Molten salts reactor systems for methane pyrolysis" was invented by Leonardo Spanu (Houston), Guoqiang Yang (Houston), Joseph Broun Powell (Houston) and Carl Mesters (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactor system, which is active in pyrolyzing methane at effective conditions, comprising a molten salt medium and a reaction vessel, the molten salt being contained within the reaction vessel using various methods of catalyst distribution within the vessel such that when methane passes through the vessel, it comes into contact with said catalyst causing a pyrol...