US Patent Issued to Chevron Phillips Chemical on July 8 for "Methanol production from methane utilizing a supported chromium catalyst" (Texas, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,545, issued on July 8, was assigned to Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Methanol production from methane utilizing a supported chromium catalyst" was invented by Jamie N. Sutherland (Kingwood, Texas), James Hillier (Kingwood, Texas), Gregory G. Hendrickson (Kingwood, Texas) and Max P. McDaniel (Bartlesville, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for converting methane into methanol are disclosed in which methane, water, and a supported chromium (VI) catalyst are contacted with a light beam at a wavelength in the UV-visible spectrum in an oxidizing atmosphere in a single reactor to form a reaction prod...