ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,600, issued on April 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"System and method for gas turbine integrated hydrogen production with zero carbon dioxide emissions" was invented by Mark J. Wagner (Houston) and Shunsuke Torii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a hydrogen gas production system and a power generation system. The hydrogen gas production system includes a heated gas supply line configured for flow of a heated gas, a hydrocarbon supply line, a catalytic pyrolysis reactor configured to be in thermal contact with the heated gas of the heated gas supply line and produce a hydrogen conta...