US Patent Issued to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Purdue Research Foundation on Aug. 4 for "Transition metal carbides for catalytic dehydrogenation of short alkanes" (Iowa, Louisiana, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,246, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Ames, Iowa) and Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Transition metal carbides for catalytic dehydrogenation of short alkanes" was invented by Yue Wu (Ames, Iowa), Zhe Li (Bothell, Wash.), Fan Yang (Ames, Iowa) and Yang Xiao (Ruston, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method of dehydrogenating hydrocarbons, such as C2 or C3 hydrocarbons, selectively and efficiently, to provide the corresponding alkylenes. The method is based on a Pt nanolayer catalyst over MXene (Pt/MXene) that shows resistance to coke deposi...