US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 25 for "Dry reforming of methane using a nickel-based bi-metallic catalyst" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,272, issued on March 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Dry reforming of methane using a nickel-based bi-metallic catalyst" was invented by Kunho Lee (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sai P. Katikaneni (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Aadesh Harale (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Bandar Solami (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of dry reforming methane with CO2 using a bi-metallic nickel and ruthenium-based catalyst. A dry reformer having the bimetallic catalyst as reforming catalyst, and a method of producing syngas with the dry reformer."

The patent was filed on Aug. 12, 2021, under Applica...