ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,811, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Process and system for generating a hydrogen product from hydrogen sulfide with microwave energy" was invented by Abdullah M. Alharith (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Bader Alharbi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed Alabdrabalnabi (Qatif, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and associated system for generating a hydrogen product from a feed gas stream comprising hydrogen sulfide. The process includes thermally decomposing hydrogen sulfide present in the feed gas stream into hydrogen gas and elemental sulfur in a thermal decomposition unit...