ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,360, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ERGO EXERGY TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Montreal).

"Quenching and/or sequestering process fluids within underground carbonaceous formations, and associated systems and methods" was invented by Mikhail Blinderman (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for quenching an underground carbonaceous formation with carbon and/or sequestering carbon within an underground carbonaceous formation are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a representative coal gasification system can comprise (i) an injection conduit extending from a ground surface to an underground coal gasification (UCG) reac...