US Patent Issued to CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL on Oct. 20 for "High temperature methanol steam reforming catalyst" (Indiana, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,490, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTD (Muttenz, Switzerland).

"High temperature methanol steam reforming catalyst" was invented by Yunyun Zhou (Sellersburg, Ind.), Jason Spencer (Corydon, Ind.), Brooke Ames (La Grange, Ky.) and Yeping Cai (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to a methanol reforming catalyst composition comprising a ZnO phase, present in the composition in an amount of 20-75 wt. %; a zinc-aluminum spinel phase, present in the composition in an amount of 20-60 wt. %; and a Cu dopant phase, present in the composition in an amount of 0.1-20 ...