US Patent Issued to INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEO on April 8 for "Heterogeneous catalyst with multicatalytic activity" (Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,019, issued on April 8, was assigned to INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEO (Mexico City).

"Heterogeneous catalyst with multicatalytic activity" was invented by Jose Manuel Dominguez Esquivel (Mexico City), Alma Delia Miranda Olvera (Mexico City), Miguel Angel Vazquez Guevara (Mexico City), Adriana del Carmen Galvan Cabrera (Mexico City) and Merced Martinez Rosales (Mexico City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this invention is described: a) the preparation of a new heterogeneous catalyst based on mesoporous silica with variable geometry of pore arrangement, covalently functionalized by an ionic liquid and as a counterion a tungsten pol...