ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,455, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Carbon Technology Holdings LLC (Oakdale, Minn.).

"Biocarbon blends with optimized fixed carbon content, and methods for making and using the same" was invented by James A Mennell (Brighton, Utah), Dustin Slack (Gwinn, Mich.) and Daren Daugaard (Newburg, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some variations, the invention provides a biocarbon composition comprising a low fixed carbon material with a fixed carbon concentration from 20 wt % to 55 wt %; a high fixed carbon material with a fixed carbon concentration from 50 wt % to 100 wt % (and higher than the fixed carbon concentration of the low ...