ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,321, issued on May 13, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Organic substance decomposition catalyst and organic substance decomposition apparatus" was invented by Nario Sugahara (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kentaro Ishihara (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Akihiro Takeuchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hideto Sato (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic substance decomposition catalyst that contains a perovskite-type complex oxide denoted by a formula AxByMzOw, where A includes Ba, B includes Zr, M represents Mn and Co, a composition ratio of Mn to Co is represented by Mn:Co=z1:z2, z=z1+z2, y+z=1.000, 0.100...