ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,519, issued on March 25, was assigned to APPLIED GAIA Corp. (Houston).

"Pyrolyser" was invented by Sheila Macdonald Kyger (Houston) and Sebastian Burn (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pyrolyser including (i) a pyrolysis chamber defining an interior compartment having an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein the pyrolysis chamber includes a feed inlet, a product outlet, an exhaust gas outlet, and an operational length comprising a linear distance from the feed inlet to the product outlet; (ii) a trough located in the lower portion of the interior compartment and extending through the pyrolysis chamber alo...