US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Oct. 7 for "Catalyst for ethylbenzene dehydrogenation to form styrene" (Saudi Arabia, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,228, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Catalyst for ethylbenzene dehydrogenation to form styrene" was invented by Nagendra Kulal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Bassam Elali (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ganapati Shanbhag (Bengaluru, India) and Ziyauddin Qureshi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst includes an alumina support, GdFeO3 distributed on the alumina support, and Fe2O3 distributed on the alumina support. The GdFeO3 is in the form of an orthorhombic perovskite structure with a Pbnm space group, and the Fe2O3 is in the form of Gamma-Fe2O3....