ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,074, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Dehydrogenation reaction apparatus" was invented by Jaeyong Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jin Woo Choung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongwoo Kim (Gunpo-si, South Korea), Jihui Seo (Ulsan, South Korea), Pyung Soon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yoondo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaewon Kirk (Seoul, South Korea), Suk Woo Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Hyuntae Sohn (Seoul, South Korea), Yongmin Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyangsoo Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent ...