US Patent Issued to BASF, The Regents of the University of California on June 17 for "Catalyst compositions and methods of preparation and use thereof" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,140, issued on June 17, was assigned to BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Catalyst compositions and methods of preparation and use thereof" was invented by Joseph C. Dellamorte (Beachwood, Ohio), Enrique Iglesia (Berkeley, Calif.), Teng Fu (Shanghai) and Biswanath Dutta (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of dehydrogenating a light alkane gas (and/or light alkene gas), which include adding hydrogen (H2) to the light alkane gas (and/or light alkene gas) in the presence of a catalyst composition containing zirconium oxide. Also disclose...