US Patent Issued to KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL on May 13 for "Catalyst for hydrosilylation reaction, hydrogenation reaction, and hydrosilane reduction reaction" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,325, issued on May 13, was assigned to KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Corp. (Fukuoka, Japan) and SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Catalyst for hydrosilylation reaction, hydrogenation reaction, and hydrosilane reduction reaction" was invented by Hideo Nagashima (Fukuoka, Japan), Atsushi Sanagawa (Fukuoka, Japan), Shoma Kawabata (Fukuoka, Japan), Daisuke Noda (Annaka, Japan) and Koji Sakuta (Annaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a catalyst which comprises a compound represented by formula (1) and which exhibits activity for at least one type of reaction selected from among hydrosilylation reaction or hydr...