ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,407, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to LG CHEM LTD (Seoul, South Korea) and KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Catalyst for hydrogenation reaction and method for producing same" was invented by Myungji Suh (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Hyun Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Minkee Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Songhyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst for a hydrogenation reaction including: a polymer support; and a catalytic component supported on the polymer support. The polymer support comprises a repeating unit represented by Formula 1."

The patent was filed on Ma...