US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK on Feb. 24 for "High-temperature shock heating for thermochemical reactions" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,662, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.).

"High-temperature shock heating for thermochemical reactions" was invented by Liangbing Hu (Potomac, Md.), Dongxia Liu (Clarksville, Md.), Yonggang Yao (College Park, Md.) and Qi Dong (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more reactants are flowed into thermal contact with a heating element in a reactor for a first time period. During a first part of a heating cycle, the one or more reactants are provided with a first temperature by heating with the heating element, such that one or more thermochemical reactions is initiat...