ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,814, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Johnson Matthey PLC (London).
"Steam reforming" was invented by Mileta Babovic (Billingham, Great Britain), Mikael Carlsson (Billingham, Great Britain), David Davis (Billingham, Great Britain), Craig Foster (Billingham, Great Britain), Graham Hinton (Billingham, Great Britain), Andrew Edward Richardson (Billingham, Great Britain) and Craig Wilkinson (Billingham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process is described for steam reforming a hydrocarbon feedstock, comprising passing a mixture of the hydrocarbon feedstock and steam through a catalyst bed comprising a particulate nickel st...