ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,993, issued on July 22, was assigned to LanzaTech Inc. (Skokie, Ill.).
"Process for improving carbon conversion efficiency" was invented by Christophe Mihalcea (Chicago), Robert Conrado (Washington), Nicholas Bourdakos (Toronto), Xueliang Li (Morton Grove, Ill.) and Sean Simpson (Evanston, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides for the integration of a CO-consuming process, such as a gas fermentation process, with a CO2 electrolysis process. The invention is capable of utilizing a CO2-comprising gaseous substrate generated by an industrial process and provides for one or more removal modules to remove at least one...