US Patent Issued to Air Company Holdings on March 18 for "Method and apparatus for selective alcohol upgrading" (Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,462, issued on March 18, was assigned to Air Co. Holdings Inc. (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Method and apparatus for selective alcohol upgrading" was invented by Stafford W Sheehan (Tiverton, R.I.), Chi Chen (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Nicholas J. Steinke (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for utilizing carbon dioxide to produce multi-carbon products are disclosed. The systems and methods of the present disclosure involve: reducing CO2 to produce a first product mixture comprising an alcohol product mixture comprising one or more alcohols and a paraffin product mixture comprising one or more paraffins; dehydrating the alcohol ...