ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,766, issued on July 8, was assigned to GIDARA ENERGY B.V. (Schiphol, Netherlands).

"Process and apparatus for producing synthesis gas through thermochemical conversion of biomass and waste materials" was invented by Elyas M. Moghaddam (Nootdorp, Netherlands), Avishek Goel (Nootdorp, Netherlands), Dobrin Toporov (Nootdorp, Netherlands), Wim van der Zande (Nootdorp, Netherlands), Chris van der Zande (Nootdorp, Netherlands) and Alireza Mohammadi (Nootdorp, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a process and apparatus for converting feedstock comprising biomass and/or carbon-containing solid waste mater...