US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO on April 21 for "Ammonia production" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,450, issued on April 21, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Ammonia production" was invented by Tanya Srivastava (Schiedam, Netherlands), Anca Anastasopol (Pijnacker, Netherlands) and Earl Lawrence Vincent Goetheer (Mol, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a method of preparing NH3, and to a method of regenerating a metal M from MOR1, wherein O is oxygen and R1 is -CH3 and/or -C2H5.The method for preparing NH3 comprises the steps of a) reacting a metal with nitrogen gas to produce a metal nitride, wherein the metal...