ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,011, issued on April 22, was assigned to PCC HYDROGEN INC. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Reactor for conversion of hydrocarbons and oxygenates to syngas and hydrogen" was invented by Timothy Griffith Fogarty (Prospect, Ky.), Jeffrey Baker Harrison (Louisville, Ky.), Devendra Pakhare (Louisville, Ky.), Timothy David Appleberry (Louisville, Ky.) and Joshua Aaron Gubitz (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-autothermal adiabatic reactor is described, including a reactor vessel defining an interior volume therein for adiabatic reaction, an inlet assembly including one or more inlets arranged to introduce reactant(s) to the interior ...