US Patent Issued on Sept. 23 for "Protein hydrolysate composition that increases coalbed methane production" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,440, issued on Sept. 23.

"Protein hydrolysate composition that increases coalbed methane production" was invented by Bomi Patel-Framroze (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a composition and a method for increasing biogenic methane gas production from subterranean coal deposits. The composition and method provides a nutrient protein hydrolysate that contains less than 0.5 percent of the amino acid L-tyrosine, which is most effective in significantly increasing methane gas released from subterranean coal deposits."

The patent was filed on Dec. 22, 2021, under Application No. 17/559,675.

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