US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on Sept. 1 for "Cobalt catalysts containing "smart" or "task specific" anions" (Texas, Colorado, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,146, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Cobalt catalysts containing "smart" or "task specific" anions" was invented by Connor Q. Kabes (San Antonio), William J. Maximuck (Pennsburg, Pa.), John A. Gladysz (College Station, Texas) and Aaron R. Wegener (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a composition having a cation and an anion. In some embodiments, a base is incorporated into the anion, and the cation and the anion form a bifunctional catalyst. In some embodiments, the cation is a chiral cobalt(III) species, a...