ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,286, issued on May 27.
"Systems and/or methods for producing synthetic hydrocarbons from biomass" was invented by Matthew D. Merrill (Charlottesville, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can include and/or relate to, converting biomass to synthetic hydrocarbons using a biomass thermal decomposer and/or a hydrocarbon synthesizer."
The patent was filed on ...