ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,277, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Johnson Matthey PLC (London).
"Ammonia-burning combustion engine" was invented by Kevin Doura (Audubon, Pa.), John Kilmartin (Sonning Common, Great Britain), Jing Lu (Wayne, Pa.), Nicholas Mcnamara (Wayne, Pa.) and Thomas Manning Yeh (Audubon, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ammonia-burning combustion engine. In particular, the present invention relates to an internal combustion engine for the combustion of ammonia, the engine comprising one or more combustions chambers comprising an ammonia combustion catalyst. The invention further relates to a method for operating an internal combustio...