US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on Sept. 30 for "Chemical reaction method, chemical reaction apparatus and production method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,493, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Chemical reaction method, chemical reaction apparatus and production method" was invented by Takehiro Nakasuji (Ichihara, Japan), Tetsuya Suzuta (Niihama, Japan), Masato Matsuda (Niihama, Japan) and Yuichi Sato (Niihama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a chemical reaction device that improves a yield of a product and that causes a reaction, progress of which in a gaseous phase is restricted by a chemical equilibrium between a source material and the product, a cumulative value is not less than 500 mm2, the cumulative value being obtained by cumulat...