US Patent Issued to HEZE BRANCH, QILU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY(SHANDONG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES) on Feb. 11 for "Method for preparing pinacolone" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,410, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to HEZE BRANCH, QILU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY(SHANDONG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES) (Heze, China).

"Method for preparing pinacolone" was invented by Wei Cheng (Heze, China), Fengke Yang (Heze, China), Zhiyuan Zhao (Heze, China), Shoufeng Li (Heze, China), He Ma (Heze, China), Xinfang Ge (Heze, China), Yinuo Wei (Heze, China), Yanchao Yin (Heze, China) and Li Liu (Heze, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing pinacolone is provided. Raw materials including 2-methyl-2-butene, hydrochloric acid and formaldehyde are reacted in the presence of a catalyst to produce pinacolone. The catalyst ...