ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,278, issued on March 25, was assigned to Inner Mongolia University of Technology (Hohhot, China).

"Method for preparing organic-inorganic hierarchical ZSM-5" was invented by Yongfeng Zhang (Hohhot, China), Zhifei Hao (Hohhot, China) and Xingyuan Liu (Hohhot, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic-inorganic hierarchical ZSM-5, a preparation method thereof, and an application thereof are provided. The preparation method for the organic-inorganic hierarchical ZSM-5 includes the following steps: mixing a silicon source, an aluminum source, NaOH, and water, stirring the mixture until uniformly dispersed, and drying and grinding ...