ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,460, issued on May 6, was assigned to NANJING INSTITUTE OF MICROINTERFACE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Jiangsu, China).

"Reaction system for preparing soda ash" was invented by Zhibing Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Lei Li (Jiangsu, China), Haining Sun (Jiangsu, China), Zheng Zhou (Jiangsu, China), Fangyuan Ding (Jiangsu, China), Huimin Qin (Jiangsu, China), Qingdong Zhu (Jiangsu, China), Quan Lu (Jiangsu, China) and Xiabing Li (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reaction system for preparing soda ash and a reaction method are provided in the present invention. The reaction system includes: a carbonization tower, a reaction crystallizat...