ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,466, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Modern Hydrogen Inc. (Woodinville, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for removing organic compounds from the output of pyrolysis or other reactors" was invented by Matthew Gianni Equi Ibbotson (Seattle), Andrew Thomas Koch (Seattle), John Joel Lorr (Monroe, Wash.), Max Nathan Mankin (Shoreline, Wash.), William Hunter Harrison Nealley (Seattle), Kathryn Elizabeth Roach (Seattle), Vikram Seshadri (Bothell, Wash.), Sergey Vasilyevich Tsurkan (Bothell, Wash.) and Kevin J. Hughes (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for removing organic compounds byproducts from a product stream from...