US Patent Issued to HYPERTHERMICS AS on Oct. 7 for "Energy production with hyperthermophilic organisms" (Norwegian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,347, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HYPERTHERMICS AS (Orsta, Norway).

"Energy production with hyperthermophilic organisms" was invented by Jan Remmereit (Volda, Norway) and Michael Thomm (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of degradation with hyperthermophilic organisms, and in particular to the use of hyperthermophilic degradation to produce heat and energy rich components including hydrogen and ethanol from a biomass. In some embodiments, a biomass is fermented in the presence of hyperthermophilic organisms to produce heat. The heat is used to heat a liquid which is used ...