ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,692, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Runtai New Material Co. Ltd. (Taizhou, China).

"Continuous production system for alcohol ester C-12" was invented by Shiyuan Zhang (Taizhou, China), Wenguo Song (Taizhou, China) and Xiaosong Lu (Taizhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous production system for alcohol ester C-12 is provided, comprising: a feedstock tank, a reaction tower, an atmospheric distillation tower, a vacuum distillation tower, a condenser, a water washing tower, a dehydration tower, an evaporator, a light component removal tower, and a rectifying tower that are all connected with each other through pipeli...