ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,004, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC (Beijing).

"Process and system for hydrotreating deoiled asphalt" was invented by Qinghe Yang (Beijing), Shuling Sun (Beijing), Dawei Hu (Beijing), Chuanfeng Niu (Beijing), Yanzi Jia (Beijing), Lishun Dai (Beijing), Zhen Wang (Beijing), Anpeng Hu (Beijing), Liang Ren (Beijing) and Dadong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are a process and a system for hydrotreating a deoiled asphalt. The process includes: (2) introducing a deoiled asphalt and an aromatics-containing stream into ...