ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,128, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and DALIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM AND PETROCHEMICALS SINOPEC CORP. (Liaoning, China).

"Pseudo-boehmite, manufacturing process and application thereof" was invented by Huihong Zhu (Liaoning, China), Tao Yang (Liaoning, China), Tiebin Liu (Liaoning, China), Hao Jin (Liaoning, China), Guang Yang (Liaoning, China), Lu Liu (Liaoning, China), Zhenhui Lv (Liaoning, China) and Xiangchen Fang (Liaoning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pseudo-boehmite has a dry basis content of 55-85 wt % and contains a phosphoric acid ester group. The sodium o...