ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,768, issued on June 3, was assigned to Huaqiao University (Quanzhou, China).

"Method for molecular sieve shaping by using rice husk as template" was invented by Guowu Zhan (Fujian, China), Meiting Guo (Fujian, China), Shufeng Zhou (Fujian, China), Dongren Cai (Fujian, China), Qingqing Xu (Fujian, China) and Jianbin Lin (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using a molecular sieve shaped by rice husks as a template is provided. A method using a molecular sieve shaped by rice husks as a catalyst for a thermal cracking reaction for stearic acid is provided. A method for manufacturing a molecular sieve incorporating r...