US Patent Issued to Infinium Technology on March 4 for "Thermally integrated process for the production of liquid fuels with a solid oxide electrolyzer" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,025, issued on March 4, was assigned to Infinium Technology LLC (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Thermally integrated process for the production of liquid fuels with a solid oxide electrolyzer" was invented by Robert Schuetzle (Sacramento, Calif.), Dennis Schuetzle (Grass Valley, Calif.), Anja Rumplecker Galloway (San Rafael, Calif.) and James Bucher (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Production of fuels from low carbon electricity and from carbon dioxide by the use of a solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) and Fischer-Tropsch is shown. Fischer-Tropsch is an exothermic reaction that can be used to produce steam. Steam produced from the Liq...