US Patent Issued to Seata Holdings on April 8 for "Process of treating carbonaceous material and apparatus therefor" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,002, issued on April 8, was assigned to Seata Holdings Pty Ltd (Australia).

"Process of treating carbonaceous material and apparatus therefor" was invented by John David Winter (Glen Innes, Australia) and James McFarlane (Weston, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for processing carbonaceous material includes delivering a carbonaceous material to a reactor; delivering a catalyst to the reactor; processing the carbonaceous material at a relatively low temperature within the reactor to decompose the carbonaceous material to base compounds."

The patent was filed on Oct. 10, 2019, under Application No. 17/284,088.

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