ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,765, issued on June 3.

"Apparatus for supercritical water gasification" was invented by Thomas J. Baudhuin (Canton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a supercritical fluid gasification system. In some embodiments, the system includes a reactor having a reactor shell including sidewalls that extend between a top reactor cover and a bottom reactor cover, where the sidewalls, the top cover, and the bottom cover enclosing a reactor shell channel. In some embodiments, the reactor includes a thermal shield positioned within the reactor shell channel, the thermal shield having sidewalls that extend between a ...