US Patent Issued to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL, SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAFETY ENGINEERING on Jan. 27 for "Method for preparing propylene oxide by means of direct epoxidation of propylene" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,445, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAFETY ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).

"Method for preparing propylene oxide by means of direct epoxidation of propylene" was invented by Chenyang Zhao (Shandong, China), Bing Sun (Shandong, China), Hongwei Zhu (Shandong, China), Junjie Feng (Shandong, China), Lin Wang (Shandong, China), Zhe Yang (Shandong, China), Wei Xu (Shandong, China), Huiyun Jiang (Shandong, China), Fei An (Shandong, China) and Yan Jin (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing epoxypropane by direct epoxidation...