US Patent Issued to MICROWAVE SOLUTIONS on June 24 for "Pyrolysis of carbon based material" (South African, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,207, issued on June 24, was assigned to MICROWAVE SOLUTIONS GMBH (Riehen, Switzerland).

"Pyrolysis of carbon based material" was invented by Annelie Stapela (Riehen, Switzerland) and Mathys Johannes Rossouw (Rayton Gauteng, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a pyrolysis method and reactor for recovering at least one component from a carbon based material using thermal decomposition. The carbon based material is delivered to a pyrolytic chamber (1), exposed to a controlled atmosphere and heated to a decomposition temperature of the at least one component in the pyrolytic chamber (1) by microwave radia...