ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,454, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Epsilon Advanced Materials PVT Ltd (Mumbia, India).

"System and process for producing mesophase coke from isotropic pitch" was invented by Chinnasamy Natarajan (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system for producing mesophase coke from an isotropic pitch. The system includes a reactor having a first heating zone to carry out pretreating of the isotropic pitch by operating at a temperature of 250deg C.-350deg C. under atmospheric pressure. The reactor further includes a second heating zone to carry out heating of the pretreated isotropic pitch by mai...