Patents by Inventor Rene LEISNER

Rene LEISNER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260078322
    Abstract: An anaerobic biogas plant comprising a digester and a method for the digestion of fresh organic digestion substrate. The digester includes an entry section with an inlet at a first end, a rear section at a second, opposite end, and a middle section arranged between the entry section and the rear section. The digester further includes a stirring unit comprising a shaft extending in the direction from the first end to the second end and having at least one agitating arm for mixing the substrate within the digester. The middle section includes a main outlet and the rear section includes an additional outlet. The digester further includes a separate return line leading from the additional outlet back to the entry section of the digester for allowing a direct return of a minor fraction of digestate removed from the rear section back into the entry section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2025
    Publication date: March 19, 2026
    Applicant: HITACHI ZOSEN INOVA AG
    Inventors: Rene LEISNER, Adrian SCHATZ
  • Publication number: 20220243154
    Abstract: An anaerobic biogas plant for the digestion of fresh organic digestion substrate. The digester having an entry section with an inlet at a first end, a rear section at a second, opposite end, and a middle section arranged between the entry section and the rear section. The digester further includes a stirring unit comprising a shaft extending in the direction from the first end to the second end and having at least one agitating arm for mixing the substrate within the digester. The middle section of the digester includes a main outlet and the rear section includes an additional outlet. The digester further includes a separate return line leading from the additional outlet back to the entry section of the digester for allowing a direct return of a minor fraction of digested substrate removed from the rear section back into the entry section of the digester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI ZOSEN INOVA AG
    Inventors: Rene LEISNER, Adrian SCHATZ
  • Patent number: 10160942
    Abstract: A biogas plant fermenter supply method increases total throughput of substrate through fermenter chambers while not changing the number of fermenter chambers. An inoculum fermenter chamber is supplied with raw fermentation substrate and fermenting for a dwell time, returning part of the substrate fermented in the inoculum fermenter chamber in the form of a self-inoculating substrate to the inoculum fermenter chamber by a return path, the part being mixed with the raw fermentation substrate, and supplying a fast fermenter chamber coupled to the inoculum fermenter chamber with an additional part of the substrate fermented in the inoculum fermenter chamber in the form of a fast fermenter inoculation substrate and mixing the additional part with fast fermenter raw substrate of an amount per unit of time, wherein fermented output substrate is removed from the fast fermenter chamber after a dwell time of the substrate mixture introduced into the fast fermenter chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI ZOSEN INOVA AG
    Inventors: Michael Oertig, Rene Leisner
  • Publication number: 20160024449
    Abstract: A biogas plant fermenter supply method increases total throughput of substrate through fermenter chambers while not changing the number of fermenter chambers. An inoculum fermenter chamber is supplied with raw fermentation substrate and fermenting for a dwell time, returning part of the substrate fermented in the inoculum fermenter chamber in the form of a self-inoculating substrate to the inoculum fermenter chamber by a return path, the part being mixed with the raw fermentation substrate, and supplying a fast fermenter chamber coupled to the inoculum fermenter chamber with an additional part of the substrate fermented in the inoculum fermenter chamber in the form of a fast fermenter inoculation substrate and mixing the additional part with fast fermenter raw substrate of an amount per unit of time, wherein fermented output substrate is removed from the fast fermenter chamber after a dwell time of the substrate mixture introduced into the fast fermenter chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI ZOSEN INOVA AG
    Inventors: Michael OERTIG, Rene LEISNER