ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,803, issued on July 1, was assigned to Carbon Engineering ULC (Squamish, Canada).

"Method and system for synthesizing fuel from dilute carbon dioxide source" was invented by Kenton Heidel (Squamish, Canada), James Murphy (Squamish, Canada), Adrian Corless (Squamish, Canada), Geoff Holmes (Squamish, Canada), Jenny McCahill (Squamish, Canada), Anna Stukas (Squamish, Canada), Jane Ritchie (Squamish, Canada) and Kevin Nold (Squamish, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a synthetic fuel from hydrogen and carbon dioxide comprises extracting hydrogen molecules from hydrogen compounds in a hydrogen feedstock to produc...