US Patent Issued to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on June 2 for "Catalyst system for dehydrogenation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,076, issued on June 2, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Catalyst system for dehydrogenation" was invented by Suljo Linic (Ann Arbor, Mich.), James Wortman (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Rawan Almallahi (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst system for propane dehydrogenation includes a hollow fiber members packed with a Pt1Sn1/SiO2 catalyst. The hollow fiber membrane includes a separation layer coated on an interior surface of a support tube. The separation layer selectively removes H2 generated during the propane dehydrogenation reaction."

The patent was filed on Oct. 3, 2023, u...