US Patent Issued to JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY on July 1 for "Method of producing metal oxyhydride, metal oxyhydride, and method of synthesizing ammonia using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,704, issued on July 1, was assigned to JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (Kawaguchi, Japan).

"Method of producing metal oxyhydride, metal oxyhydride, and method of synthesizing ammonia using same" was invented by Masaaki Kitano (Machida, Japan), Hideo Hosono (Yamato, Japan), Toshiharu Yokoyama (Yokohama, Japan), Kayato Ooya (Kamakura, Japan), Kiya Ogasawara (Hadano, Japan) and Ryu Takashima (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method of producing a metal oxyhydride, capable of synthesizing the metal oxyhydride under reaction conditions close to atmospheric pressure, and excellent in productivity a...