ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,989, issued on July 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Temperature uniformized heat-exchange-type catalyst reactor" was invented by Koichi Yokoyama (Tokyo), Masashi Kiyosawa (Tokyo) and Shuji Tanigawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst reactor device is provided with a reactor. The reactor includes: a reaction tube including a multilayer-structure tube which is formed from a cylindrical nonporous layer and a cylindrical porous layer layered on the inner side of the nonporous layer, has a fluid inflow port and a fluid outflow port, has a reaction tube lumen contiguous from the fluid inflow por...