US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL, MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL, NIPPON STEEL ENGINEERING on Nov. 4 for "Method for producing carbonate esters, and catalytic structure for producing carbonate esters" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,884, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo), MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY INC. (Tokyo) and NIPPON STEEL ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing carbonate esters, and catalytic structure for producing carbonate esters" was invented by Kimihito Suzuki (Tokyo), Yousuke Shinkai (Tokyo), Hongyu Liu (Tokyo), Hidefumi Harada (Tokyo), Yuzuru Kato (Tokyo), Kentaro Morita (Tokyo) and Asuka Ohashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method for producing carbonate esters, and a catalytic structure for producing carbonate esters, whereby solid catalyst powder formation and detachment are suppre...