US Patent Issued to Renaissance Energy Research, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 8 for "Porous alumina and catalyst" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,405, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Renaissance Energy Research Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Porous alumina and catalyst" was invented by Akira Hasegawa (Aomori, Japan), Yoshihiro Kadoma (Aomori, Japan), Osamu Okada (Kyoto, Japan), Kana Motomura (Kyoto, Japan), Shizuka Ogasawara (Kyoto, Japan), Hiromi Nakamura (Kyoto, Japan), Tamotsu Nonouchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Kaori Matsuda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Porous alumina having excellent heat resistance and coking resistance is provided. The porous alumina can include silica and barium oxide added to aluminum oxide, wherein a ra...