US Patent Issued to University of Wyoming on Oct. 7 for "Methods for microbial gas production and use as isotopic tracer" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,261, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.).

"Methods for microbial gas production and use as isotopic tracer" was invented by Michael Urynowicz (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating biogas is disclosed, including delivering a feedstock downhole to a coal reservoir, generating biogas within the coal reservoir, and harvesting the biogas. The method comprises delivering a feedstock downhole to a coal reservoir via an injection well, generating biogas within the coal reservoir through microbial action, creating a biogas that is isotopically differentiable from a backgr...