ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,852, issued on July 15, was assigned to Infinium Technology LLC (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Catalysts and processes for the direct production of liquid fuels from carbon dioxide and hydrogen" was invented by Robert Schuetzle (Sacramento, Calif.) and Dennis Schuetzle (Grass Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention relates to two improved catalysts and associated processes that directly converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels. The catalytic converter is comprised of two catalysts in series that are operated at the same pressures to directly produce synthetic liquid fuels or synthetic na...