ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,101, issued on March 17, was assigned to Topsoe A/S (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark).

"Process for the production of synthesis gas" was invented by Per Juul Dahl (Vedbaek, Denmark) and Nitin Sharma (Faridabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing synthesis gas, the process comprising the steps of a) reforming a hydrocarbon feed in a reforming section thereby obtaining a synthesis gas comprising CH4, CO, CO2, H2 and H2O and impurities comprising ammonia; b) shifting the synthesis gas in a shift section comprising one or more shift steps in series to a shifted synthesis gas; c) separating from the shifted synthesis gas a...