US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY, AMANO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on June 3 for "Methane producing method and production system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,633, issued on June 3, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY (Japan) and AMANO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Japan).

"Methane producing method and production system" was invented by Choji Fukuhara (Hamamatsu, Japan), Masao Sudoh (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Hiroshi Akama (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing methane that includes supplying a raw material gas containing hydrogen gas, oxygen gas, and carbon dioxide gas to a reactor provided with a catalyst, thereby starting a methanation reaction using heat including reaction heat due to catalyst combustion of the hydrogen gas; and co...