ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,315, issued on May 27, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC (Beijing).

"Structured monolith catalyst for reducing NOX emission in flue gas, preparation method and applications thereof" was invented by Haitao Song (Beijing), Qiuqiao Jiang (Beijing), Huiping Tian (Beijing), Wei Lin (Beijing), Jiasong Yan (Beijing), Peng Wang (Beijing), Jiushun Zhang (Beijing) and Zhijian Da (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structured monolithic catalyst has a structured monolithic carrier and a coating of active components. The coating of active components comprises ...