ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,716, issued on April 29, was assigned to Twelve Benefit Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"System and method for carbon dioxide reactor control" was invented by Nicholas H. Flanders (San Francisco), Kendra P. Kuhl (Oakland, Calif.), Etosha R. Cave (Berkeley, Calif.), Sichao Ma (Dublin, Calif.), Ziyang Huo (Moraga, Calif.), Carter S. Haines (Berkeley, Calif.), Timothy A. Bekkedahl (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kathryn L. Corp (Berkeley, Calif.), Ashley D. Mishra (Danville, Calif.), Edward Izett (Berkeley, Calif.) and Luka Stevic (Novi Sad, Serbia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system optionally including a carbon oxide reactor. A method for carbon ox...