ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,106, issued on May 13, was assigned to Applied Technology LP (Doraville, Ga.).

"Methods and systems for producing sulfur-containing products" was invented by Nathan Joseph Porter (Herriman, Utah), Benjamin Thomas Egelske (Greenville, S.C.), Hunter Orion Brown (Easley, S.C.) and Robert J. Gulotty Jr. (Greer, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for producing sulfuric acid and/or sulfur trioxide, which may include contacting a first stream that includes oxygen and a second stream that includes sulfur to produce a third stream that includes sulfur dioxide, and subjecting the third stream to an oxidation reaction to pr...