US Patent Issued to CZero on Nov. 25 for "Moving bed reactor for hydrocarbon pyrolysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,939, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CZero Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Moving bed reactor for hydrocarbon pyrolysis" was invented by Samuel Shaner (Goleta, Calif.), Brett Parkinson (Goleta, Calif.) and Andrew Caldwell (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat transfer media comprises a particle. The particle comprises a discontinuous phase and a matrix material. The discontinuous phase is disposed within the matrix material, and the matrix material has a higher melting point than the discontinuous phase. The discontinuous phase has a melting point selected to be within a reaction temperature range."

The patent was filed o...