ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,946, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to XI'AN SUNWARD AEROMAT Co. LTD. (Xi'an, China).

"Carrier for mercury adsorbent and method for preparing the carrier" was invented by Longlong Xu (Xi'an, China), Zhenguo Zhang (Xi'an, China), Shaodan Zhao (Xi'an, China), Di Huang (Xi'an, China), Wenyou Wang (Xi'an, China), Chunzhen Xue (Xi'an, China), Ke Lyu (Xi'an, China) and Yuan Luo (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation method for the carrier, includes: 1) mixing hydrated alumina with an organic acid to obtain a mixture A; and 2) adding tetraalkylsiloxane to the mixture A, thus obtaining a mixture B; stirring the mixture B...