US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on March 17 for "Method for producing carbon monoxide and apparatus used therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,113, issued on March 17, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Method for producing carbon monoxide and apparatus used therefor" was invented by Tomone Sasayama (Tsukuba, Japan), Fumihiko Kosaka (Tsukuba, Japan) and Koji Kuramoto (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing carbon monoxide, the method may comprise the steps of: (a) preparing an adsorption-conversion catalyst comprising a support, and an additive comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal and an alkaline earth metal, supported on the support, and not subst...