ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,456, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to XI'AN THERMAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE Co. LTD (Xi'an, China).

"Standing coke-making furnace and coke-making system" was invented by Chenglong Yang (Xi'an, China), Yang Li (Xi'an, China), Hanchen Zhao (Xi'an, China), Ming Cai (Xi'an, China), Chenguang Jia (Xi'an, China), Mingyu Yao (Xi'an, China), Jun Zhang (Xi'an, China), Liang Chu (Xi'an, China), Yi Cui (Xi'an, China), Hongqing Zhang (Xi'an, China), Jie Guo (Xi'an, China), Zaisong Yu (Xi'an, China) and Faguang Liang (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a standing coke-making furnace, a coke-making system and a method ther...