US Patent Issued to Japan Science and Technology Agency on July 28 for "Ammonia synthesis catalyst" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,436, issued on July 28, was assigned to Japan Science and Technology Agency (Kawaguchi, Japan).

"Ammonia synthesis catalyst" was invented by Katsutoshi Nagaoka (Nagoya, Japan), Yuta Ogura (Nagoya, Japan), Katsutoshi Sato (Nagoya, Japan) and Shin-ichiro Miyahara (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite oxide including an oxide of a metal element L and an oxide of a metal element N, and represented by a composition of general formula LnN1-n, wherein the metal element L is a Group 1 element, a Group 2 element, or a Group 1 element and a Group 2 element, the metal element N comprises a Group 1 or Group 2 element other th...