ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,731, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to XINJIANG YUEHETAI CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Karamay, China) and ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Coal to acetylene plasma reactor having coking inhibition and online decoking functions" was invented by Qiwei Yang (Hangzhou, China), Guangdong Wen (Xinjiang, China), Qilong Ren (Hangzhou, China), Ming Zhang (Xinjiang, China), Rulong Li (Xinjiang, China), Jianhua Wu (Xinjiang, China), Zhongbiao Wu (Hangzhou, China), Xinzhi Chen (Hangzhou, China), Fengqiu Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Chaohong He (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a coal-to-acetyl...