ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,762, issued on July 29, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC (Beijing).

"Organic hydrogen storage material dehydrogenation catalyst, support for the catalyst, hydrogen-storage alloy, and process for providing high-purity hydrogen gas" was invented by Wei Lin (Beijing), Xue Yang (Beijing), Haitao Song (Beijing) and Min Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst used for dehydrogenation of an organic hydrogen-storage material to generate hydrogen, a support for the catalyst, and a preparation process thereof are presented. A hydrogen-storage alloy...