US Patent Issued to Alantum Europe on Sept. 30 for "Metal foam supported catalyst and method for the production thereof" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,508, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Alantum Europe GmbH (Munich).

"Metal foam supported catalyst and method for the production thereof" was invented by Rene Poss (Karlsruhe, Del.), Meike Roos (Budingen, Germany), Monika Berweiler (Maintal, Germany) and Maximilian Glaser (Obertshausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods for producing supported catalysts, comprising: providing a metal foam element A made of nickel; applying an aluminum-containing powder MP to metal foam element A, such that metal foam element AX is obtained; thermally treating metal foam element AX in order to form an alloy be...