US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Oct. 21 for "Catalytic method for acrylate production" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,346, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Catalytic method for acrylate production" was invented by Niladri Maity (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Samir Barman (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Zainab Al-Mansaf (Al-ahasa, Saudi Arabia) and Nabil Al-Yassir (Al-khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of acrylate salt production includes reacting ethylene gas in the presence of a metal precursor solution including a base, an additive, a metal precursor, a solvent and a ligand, in an autoclave, to form a metal complex intermediate solution. Further, CO2 reacts with ...