ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,868, issued on May 20, was assigned to SnG Inc. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Reaction method for reacting reaction object with liquid containing the reaction object being in contact with granular porous body" was invented by Riichi Miyamoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Hongzhi Bai (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reacting a reaction object with a liquid containing the reaction object in contact with a granular porous body. The upper limit D (mm) of the particle diameter of the granular porous body is determined from D=0.556xLN(T)+0.166 in a column flow method in non-circulation type, and determined from D=0.0315xT+0.470 in the col...