US Patent Issued to N.E. CHEMCAT on June 3 for "Catalyst structure, fuel reforming method, and fuel reforming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,578, issued on June 3, was assigned to N.E. CHEMCAT Corp. (Tokyo).

"Catalyst structure, fuel reforming method, and fuel reforming system" was invented by Kunihiro Kojima (Aichi, Japan), Kengo Furukawa (Aichi, Japan), Naoto Shimane (Aichi, Japan), Hiroki Nakayama (Tokyo) and Koichiro Honda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a fuel-reforming catalyst that has excellent reforming activity and durability against deterioration factors such as catalyst poisoning and minimizes the amount of rhodium used. A fuel-reforming catalyst for reforming exhaust gas and a fuel containing a hydrocarbon into a syngas containing hydrogen, i...