ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,400, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to VITO NV (Mol, Belgium).

"Device and method for converting and separating at least one reactant and a reaction product thereof" was invented by Claudia Matassa (Mol, Belgium), Helmut Elslander (Mol, Belgium), Dominic Ormerod (Mol, Belgium) and Yamini Satyawali (Mol, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device are disclosed for converting at least one reactant into a reaction product and separating the at least one reactant. The device includes a vessel with a vessel inner volume and a confinement, submerged in the vessel inner volume, that provides a confinement inner volume in fl...