ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,802, issued on June 24, was assigned to Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).
"System and method for generation and extraction of fossil fuel and hydrogen from a geologic formation with increased energy efficiency" was invented by Travis S. Ramsay (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Rahul M. Fonseca (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting a fuel from a geologic formation comprises heating a target volume in the geologic formation to generate the fuel via thermal conversion of a precursor material, thereby also heating a part of the geologic formation, extractin...