US Patent Issued to NITTO DENKO on April 21 for "Formate production method, formic acid production method, and antifreezing agent production method" (Dutch, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,513, issued on April 21, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Formate production method, formic acid production method, and antifreezing agent production method" was invented by Makoto Hirano (Ibaraki, Japan), Hirokazu Matsuda (Ibaraki, Japan), Evgeny Alexandrovich Pidko (Utrecht, Netherlands), Georgy Alexandrovich Filonenko (Delft, Netherlands) and Christophe Rebreyend (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing a formate, the method including a first step of reacting hydrogen with carbon dioxide, a hydrogen carbonate or a carbonate using a catalyst in the prese...