ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,405, issued on March 18, was assigned to THYSSENKRUPP UHDE GMBH (Dortmund, Germany) and THYSSENKRUPP AG (Essen, Germany).

"Process and device for producing hydrogen, carbon monoxide and a carbon-containing product" was invented by Nicolai Antweiler (Essen, Germany), Karsten Buker (Dortmund, Germany), Frederik Scheiff (Deidesheim, Germany) and Andreas Bode (Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for producing hydrogen, carbon monoxide and a carbon-containing product in at least one reaction apparatus, wherein the at least one reaction apparatus comprises a bed of carbon-containing m...