ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,149, issued on June 16, was assigned to ASAHI KASEI K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"GIS-type zeolite formed body, adsorption apparatus, separation method, and GIS-type zeolite" was invented by Yuji Suzue (Tokyo), Kouji Nomura (Tokyo), Takayuki Akaogi (Tokyo) and Takehiro Iitsuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A GIS-type zeolite formed body including a GIS-type zeolite and a carrier, in which, when a total amount of substance of potassium and lithium is defined as A and a total amount of substance of an alkali metal is defined as C, C/Aless than equal to1.30 is satisfied."

The patent was filed on May 26, 2022, under Application No. 18/2...