ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,756, issued on March 4, was assigned to Synhelion SA (Chur, Switzerland) and ENI S.P.A. (Rome).
"Solar receiver-reactor" was invented by Gianluca Ambrosetti (Zurich) and Philipp Good (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing syngas by means of solar radiation, in which the reactor of a receiver-reactor is periodically heated via an aperture provided in the same for solar radiation by means of the solar radiation to an upper reduction temperature for a reduction process and subsequently cooled to a lower oxidation temperature for an oxidation process in the presence of an oxidation gas, whe...