US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, The University of Tokyo on June 23 for "Olefin production device and olefin production method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,435, issued on June 23, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo) and The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Olefin production device and olefin production method" was invented by Koichiro Yoshitoku (Tokyo), Yukio Tanaka (Tokyo), Atsuhiro Yukumoto (Tokyo), Noriaki Senba (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Takanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An olefin production device for producing an olefin from a raw material gas containing methane and oxygen includes a reactor containing: a first catalyst; and a second catalyst disposed downstream of the first catalyst in a flow direction of the raw material gas. The first catalyst is a cata...