US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on May 20 for "Zeolite membrane complex, separation apparatus, separation method and method of producing zeolite membrane complex" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,842, issued on May 20, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Zeolite membrane complex, separation apparatus, separation method and method of producing zeolite membrane complex" was invented by Kenichi Noda (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zeolite membrane complex includes a porous support, and a zeolite membrane formed on the support and composed of an 8-membered ring zeolite. The zeolite membrane is selectively permeable to hydrogen sulfide rather than nitrogen for a gas containing nitrogen and hydrogen sulfide."

The patent was filed on Sept. 6, 2022, under Application No. 17/929,778.

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