US Patent Issued to Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies on March 3 for "Process for formaldehyde manufacture" (Swedish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,465, issued on March 3, was assigned to Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies Ltd. (London).

"Process for formaldehyde manufacture" was invented by Gary Evans (Reading, Great Britain), Robert Haggblad (Perstorp, Sweden) and Kaisa Kisko (Perstorp, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the production of formaldehyde from methanol comprising the steps of: feeding to a reactor a feed stream comprising the methanol and an oxygen-containing gas; reacting the methanol in the gas phase with the oxygen-containing gas in the reactor in the presence of a catalyst comprising oxides of iron and molybdenum; and recovering a formaldehyde ...