ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,660, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Dalian, China).

"Catalyst for pyrolysis of 1,2-dichloroethane (DCE) to prepare vinyl chloride (VC) and preparation method, use, and regeneration method thereof" was invented by Guangye Liu (Dalian, China), Danhua Yuan (Dalian, China), Yunpeng Xu (Dalian, China), Zhongmin Liu (Dalian, China), Yanan Liu (Dalian, China), Changmin Bai (Dalian, China), Wei Huang (Dalian, China), Zhaoan Chen (Dalian, China) and Shiying Li (Dalian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst for pyrolysis of 1,2-dichloroethane (1,2-DCE) to prepare ...