ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,796, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Marathon Petroleum Co. LP (Findlay, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for holistic low carbon intensity fuel and hydrogen production" was invented by David Whikehart (Findlay, Ohio) and Gregory Herold (Findlay, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to provide low carbon intensity (CI) hydrogen through one or more targeted reductions of carbon emissions based upon an analysis of carbon emissions associated with a combination of various options for feedstock procurement, feedstock refining, processing, or transformation, and hydrogen distribution pathways to end users. Such options ...