US Patent Issued to Japan Science and Technology Agency on Aug. 5 for "Composite oxide, metal-supported material, and ammonia synthesis catalyst" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,131, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Japan Science and Technology Agency (Kawaguchi, Japan).

"Composite oxide, metal-supported material, and ammonia synthesis catalyst" was invented by Katsutoshi Nagaoka (Nagoya, Japan), Yuta Ogura (Kawaguchi, Japan) and Katsutoshi Sato (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite oxide including a metal element represented by the composition of general formula: AnXy, where the composite oxide comprises an oxide of A and an oxide of X in a mixed state: A represents an element selected from the group consisting of Sc, Y, and a trivalent lanthanoid; X represents an element selected from t...