US Patent Issued to THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER on Jan. 20 for "Carbon dioxide reduction catalyst and carbon dioxide reduction method" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,079, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER Co. INC. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Carbon dioxide reduction catalyst and carbon dioxide reduction method" was invented by Toru Murayama (Hachioji, Japan), Tamao Ishida (Hachioji, Japan), Chihiro Mochizuki (Hachioji, Japan), Ali M. Abdel-Mageed (Ulm, Germany) and Rolf Jurgen Behm (Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a carbon dioxide reduction catalyst that is used in reduction reactions of carbon dioxide and that has high methanol selectivity. A carbon dioxide reduction catalyst according to the present invention is used in producing m...