ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,770, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC (Beijing).

"Process and system for catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon oils" was invented by Jianhong Gong (Beijing), Zhigang Zhang (Beijing) and Xiaoli Wei (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon oils has a catalytic cracking reactor, a catalyst separation device, an optional reaction product separator, and a regenerator. A catalytic cracking reactor has a dilute-phase transport fluidized bed and a fast fluidized bed connected in series for reaction. I...