ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,061, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ThermoChem Recovery International Inc. (Baltimore).

"System and method for liquid fuel production from carbonaceous materials using recycled conditioned syngas" was invented by Ravi Chandran (Ellicott City, Md.), Dave G. Newport (Cumberland, Maine), Daniel A. Burciaga (Manchester, Md.), Daniel Michael Leo (Baltimore), Justin Kevin Miller (Durham, N.C.) and Brian Christopher Attwood (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for using carbonaceous material includes a steam reformer, a hydrocarbon reformer, and at least one gas-cleanup system. Also described are methods of producing liqu...