US Patent Issued to SEKISUI CHEMICAL on Oct. 7 for "Reducing agent and method for producing gas" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,226, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEKISUI CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Reducing agent and method for producing gas" was invented by Koji Takizawa (Ibaraki, Japan), Fiona Mukherjee (Ibaraki, Japan), Kenichi Shinmei (Tsukuba, Japan), Noritoshi Yagihashi (Ibaraki, Japan) and Risa Sakurai (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reducing agent for use in production of a product gas containing carbon monoxide, the reducing agent being brought into contact with a raw material gas containing carbon dioxide to reduce the carbon dioxide to produce the product gas; the reducing agent containing a composite metal oxide represe...