ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,663, issued on May 19, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Ruthenium-titanium oxide aerogel catalyst, method for preparing the same, and method for hydrogenation and hydrodeoxygenation using the same" was invented by Ji Song Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong-Myeong Ha (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Wook Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Young Hyun Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Jin Suh (Seoul, South Korea), Chunjae Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Kyeongsu Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun Joo Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a metal oxide aerogel catalyst for hydroge...