US Patent Issued to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION on May 12 for "Process for producing hydrogen" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,902, issued on May 12, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Process for producing hydrogen" was invented by Tiancun Xiao (Oxford, Great Britain), Peter P. Edwards (Oxford, Great Britain) and Xiangyu Jie (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a process for producing hydrogen comprising exposing a liquid composition comprising a hydrocarbon to electromagnetic radiation in the presence of a solid catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises: at least one metal species, comprising one or more elements selected from Fe, Ni and Co; and a non-oxygenated ceramic....