ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,507, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CHENGDU ORGANIC CHEMISTRY CO., LTD., CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Chengdu, China).

"Catalyst for oxidative carbonylation of methanol to synthesize dimethyl carbonate, and preparation method and applications thereof" was invented by Gongying Wang (Chengdu, China), Mingyu Cao (Chengdu, China), Yuansheng Bai (Chengdu, China), Qingyin Wang (Chengdu, China) and Yi Zeng (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst for oxidative carbonylation of methanol to obtain dimethyl carbonate, a preparation method and applications thereof are disclosed. The catalyst includes a carrier being a porous ...