US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on May 27 for "Increasing rates of catalytic chemical reactions by operating under conditions of adsorption compression" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,346, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Increasing rates of catalytic chemical reactions by operating under conditions of adsorption compression" was invented by Gregory Aranovich (Baltimore) and Marc C. Donohue (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst includes at least one of a porous or particulate material having a plurality of active sites that attract reactants thereto. The active sites have a spacing within a predetermined range so as to enable a chemical reaction to be enhanced through use of potential energy of intermolecular adsorption compression or intramolecular adsorp...