US Patent Issued to Japan Science and Technology Agency on March 17 for "Metal-supported material and ammonia synthesis catalyst" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,121, issued on March 17, was assigned to Japan Science and Technology Agency (Kawaguchi, Japan).

"Metal-supported material and ammonia synthesis catalyst" was invented by Katsutoshi Nagaoka (Nagoya, Japan), Yuta Ogura (Nagoya, Japan) and Katsutoshi Sato (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal-supported material including a transition metal excluding Group 4 elements supported on a binary composite oxide. The composite oxide includes a metal element expressed by AnXy, where A represents a lanthanoid that is in a partially or entirely trivalent state, X represents an element that is a Group-2 element in a periodic table ...