ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,792, issued on July 15, was assigned to 8 Rivers Capital LLC (Durham, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for producing hydrogen with integrated capture of carbon dioxide" was invented by Maulik R. Shelat (Macungie, Pa.), Shankar Nataraj (Allentown, Pa.) and Yun Wu (Davidson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for hydrogen production as well as apparatuses useful in such systems and methods, including steam generation systems and methods. Hydrogen is produced by reforming of a hydrocarbon in a plurality of reformers to achieve improved reforming efficiency. A CO2 convective reformer (CCR) ...