ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,297, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEO (Mexico City).

"Lignin depolymerization and deoxygenation process for obtaining aromatic compounds and their catalytic reaction composition" was invented by Jose Antonio Toledo Antonio (Mexico City), Maria Antonia Cortes Jacome (Mexico City), Isidro Mejia Centeno (Mexico City), Jorge Alberto Garcia Martinez (Mexico City), Jose Escobar Aguilar (Mexico City), Esteban Lopez Salinas (Mexico City), Maria de Lourdes Araceli Mosqueira Mondragon (Mexico City), Miguel Perez Luna (Mexico City), Carlos Angeles Chavez (Mexico City), Jaime Sanchez Valente (Mexico City), Maria de Lourdes Alejandra Guzman Castillo (Mexico C...