ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,069, issued on March 24, was assigned to W2E USA LLC (Blue Ash, Ohio).

"Methods and systems for producing energy from waste materials" was invented by Allan Jones (Milford, Ohio), Glenn Showers (Cincinnati) and Paul Aiken (Prestonsburg, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for processing solid waste including a segmented gasifier having a first segment detachably connected to a second segment, and a burner positioned downstream of the segmented gasifier and coupled to the segmented gasifier. A process for treating solid waste including introducing the solid waste into a first end of a segmented gasifier having a first segment...