US Patent Issued to CLIMATE on July 1 for "Systems and methods for biochar-based soil carbon sequestration" (Washington, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,747, issued on July 1, was assigned to CLIMATE LLC (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for biochar-based soil carbon sequestration" was invented by Robert Ewing (Puyallup, Wash.) and David Mack (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment is a carbon sequestration system that includes a crop residue pickup configured to ingest crop residue disposed on a field; a pyrolyzer configured to receive the crop residue output from the crop residue pickup and process the crop residue into biochar; a biochar/water or slurry mixing system configured to receive the biochar output from the pyrolyzer and quench the biochar in wa...