US Patent Issued to NOVA CHEMICALS (INTERNATIONAL) on Sept. 1 for "Large scale synthesis of oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,144, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NOVA CHEMICALS (INTERNATIONAL) S.A. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Large scale synthesis of oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst" was invented by Xiaoliang Gao (Calgary, Canada), Vasily Simanzhenkov (Calgary, Canada), David Sullivan (Calgary, Canada), Perry De Wit (Vernon, Canada), Hanna Drag (Calgary, Canada) and Yoonhee Kim (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catalysts and methods for large-scale production of the catalysts are described. An exemplary catalyst composition includes molybdenum, vanadium, tellurium, niobium, oxygen. In the catalyst composition, the molar ratio of molybdenum...