ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,637, issued on June 23, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).
"Alkane dehydrogenation catalyst" was invented by Naresh Dhachapally (Hyderabad, India), Biju Maippan Devassy (Bangalore, India), Nigit Jose Meleppuram (Bangalore, India) and Vinod Sankaran Nair (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alkane dehydrogenation catalyst including a support; and on the support, an active layer including gallium oxide, aluminum oxide, cerium oxide, a Group 1 metal oxide, and a Group 8-11 metal oxide. The catalyst composition of the examples comprises oxides of gallium, cerium, potassium, platin...