ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,020, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).

"Manufacturing method for hydrofluoroolefin or fluoroolefin" was invented by Yuuta Hasumoto (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Takakuwa (Osaka, Japan), Osamu Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan), Hideki Nakaya (Osaka, Japan), Masao Noumi (Osaka, Japan), Kazuyuki Satou (Osaka, Japan), Kohei Yamanoi (Osaka, Japan) and Akihiro Oshima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a method for producing a hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) or fluoroolefin (FO), which is a target compound, with high selectivity, without requiring a high te...