ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,678, issued on May 5, was assigned to Khalifa University of Science and Technology (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and University of Cyprus (Nicosia, Cyprus).

"Ceria-supported catalyst" was invented by Kyriaki Polychronopoulou (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Angelos M. Efstathiou (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Aseel Gamal Suliman Hussien (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Constantinos Damaskinos (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a ceria-supported catalyst. The ceria-supported catalyst may include the formula: Ni/Ce-X-10Cu-O, wherein X is one or more dopants. Embodiments furt...