ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,355, issued on May 26, was assigned to ENEOS Corp. (Tokyo) and WASEDA UNIVERSITY (Tokyo).

"Method for generating carbon monoxide, method for producing precursor, and material for chemical looping system" was invented by Yasushi Hashimoto (Tokyo), Yasushi Sato (Tokyo) and Yasushi Sekine (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating carbon monoxide includes: a generation step of generating carbon monoxide by supplying carbon dioxide to a first material containing a first element included in elements of group 11 and a second element included in elements of groups 8 to 10, 12, and 13; and a reduction step of reducing the s...