ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,342, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and DALIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM AND PETROCHEMICALS SINOPEC CORP. (Liaoning, China).
"Long-chain composition, long-chain composition set, its preparation and application thereof" was invented by Lin Zhang (Liaoning, China), Yachao Fan (Liaoning, China) and Wenjing Shi (Liaoning, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A long-chain composition has at least one long-chain alkane selected from the group consisting of C9-18 linear or branched alkanes and at least one long-chain carboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of C9-18 linear or bran...