ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,406, issued on June 23, was assigned to REACNOSTICS GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Device and method for determination of a catalyst state in a chemical reactor" was invented by Raimund Horn (Jesteburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention pertains to a device for determination of a catalyst state in a chemical reactor and to a method for detecting a catalyst state under in situ reaction conditions. A reactor is provided with a solid catalyst provided in a reactor chamber. A fluid sample is taken from the reactor chamber and is transferred to a sample chamber. The temperature at the extraction site of the sample in the rea...