US Patent Issued to DSM IP ASSETS on March 17 for "Ceramic coating on metal parts to reduce deposit of metallic transition metals in hydrogenation reactions" (Swiss, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,382, issued on March 17, was assigned to DSM IP ASSETS B.V. (Maastricht, Netherlands).

"Ceramic coating on metal parts to reduce deposit of metallic transition metals in hydrogenation reactions" was invented by Radhika Van Der Helm (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland), Thomas Wellauer (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland), Andreas Wernli (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland) and Peter Claes (Harrogate, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of reducing the deposit of metallic transition metal, particularly palladium, on a metal part in hydrogenation reactions using hydrogen and a heterogenous supported palladium cata...