US Patent Issued to Omya International on July 15 for "GNCC and/or PCC as a catalytic carrier for metal species" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,976, issued on July 15, was assigned to Omya International AG (Oftringen, Switzerland).

"GNCC and/or PCC as a catalytic carrier for metal species" was invented by Jamal Ftouni (Zofingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention refers to a catalytic system comprising a transition metal compound on a solid carrier, wherein the content of the transition metal compound on the surface of the solid carrier is from 0.1 to 30 wt.-%, based on the dry weight of the solid carrier. Furthermore, the present invention refers to a method for manufacturing the catalytic system, the use of the inventive catalytic system in a ...