ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,828, issued on June 30, was assigned to YKK Corp. (Tokyo) and National University Corporation University of Toyama (Toyama, Japan).

"Hydrocarbon synthesis catalyst, method for manufacturing same, and method for synthesizing hydrocarbons" was invented by Mai Mizubayashi (Kurobe, Japan), Naoki Tomono (Kurobe, Japan), Yuka Katayama (Kurobe, Japan), Jingdi Cao (Kurobe, Japan), Noritatsu Tsubaki (Toyama, Japan) and Guohui Yang (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrocarbon synthesis catalyst is for reacting a raw material gas including hydrogen and carbon dioxide to convert to hydrocarbons, wherein when elemental analysis of ...