US Patent Issued to SABIC Global Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Supported catalyst for butane hydrogenolyis, method of producing the supported catalyst and method to produce ethane" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,175, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SABIC Global Technologies B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Supported catalyst for butane hydrogenolyis, method of producing the supported catalyst and method to produce ethane" was invented by Byeongjin Baek (Sugar Land, Texas), Istvan Lengyel (Sugar Land, Texas), Katherine Barton (Sugar Land, Texas), Neeta Kulkarni (Sugar Land, Texas) and Dustin Fickel (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catalysts for the hydrogenolysis of butane are described. A supported catalyst for hydrogenolysis of butane to ethane can include a support and a catalytic crystalline bimetallic compositio...