US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research, IHI on Oct. 6 for "Method of producing nanostructured iron-based catalysts for converting syngas to light olefins" (Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,262, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore) and IHI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing nanostructured iron-based catalysts for converting syngas to light olefins" was invented by Sze Wei Daniel Ong (Singapore), Luwei Chen (Singapore), Chee Kok Poh (Singapore), Jie Chang (Singapore), Noriki Mizukami (Tokyo), Yoshinori Izumi (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kamata (Tokyo) and Armando Borgna (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of preparing a nano-sized, iron-based catalyst, the method comprising: mixing a solution containing an iron salt with a surfactan...