ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,110, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium).

"Cyclic method of producing a hydrogen rich stream and/or a carbon monoxide rich stream" was invented by Varun Singh (Ghent, Belgium), Vladimir Galvita (Lochristi, Belgium), Mark Saeys (Zottegem, Belgium) and Guy Marin (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cyclic method of producing a hydrogen rich and/or a carbon monoxide rich stream using different materials, a first solid material, a second solid material and a CO2 sorbent material.In a first step a first gas stream comprising steam and at least one reductant is brough...