US Patent Issued to ECOVYST CATALYST TECHNOLOGIES on July 29 for "Method for manufacturing a supported tantalum catalyst" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,529, issued on July 29, was assigned to ECOVYST CATALYST TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Malvern, Pa.).

"Method for manufacturing a supported tantalum catalyst" was invented by Parag Rasiklal Shah (Lafayette Hill, Pa.) and Yatao Rachel Hu (Malvern, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making a supported tantalum oxide catalyst precursor or catalyst with controlled Ta distribution and the resulting supported Ta catalyst. In an embodiment, the method comprises selecting a Ta-precursor with appropriate reactivity with the surface hydroxyls of the solid oxide support material to give a desired Ta distribution in the catalyst precursor or ca...