ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,891, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Dalian, China).

"Method for preparation of hierarchical TS-1 molecular sieve" was invented by Danhua Yuan (Dalian, China), Jiacheng Xing (Dalian, China), Yunpeng Xu (Dalian, China) and Zhongmin Liu (Dalian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method for preparing a hierarchical porous TS-1 molecular sieve, which uses a silicon-titanium ester polymer as both titanium source and silicon source. In the method, silicon and titanium are uniformly connected to a same polymer, and the hydrolysis rat...