ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,252, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FUJIMI Inc. (Kiyosu, Japan).
"Absorption method and mesoporous alumina used for the same" was invented by Robert Hepburn (Tualatin, Ore.) and Shogo Tsubota (Kiyosu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an absorption method of an element belonging to periods 4 to 6 and groups 3 to 15 of the periodic table. The method includes: preparing mesoporous alumina that satisfies at least one of the following items: (1) a surface hydroxyl content is 3.5 mmol/g or more; (2) a low-temperature CO2 desorption amount in CO2 thermal desorption amount spectrometry is 5 micro metreol/g or more; and (3) ...