ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,079, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China).
"Method for separating mixed xylene" was invented by Zongbi Bao (Zhejiang, China), Liangying Li (Zhejiang, China), Qilong Ren (Zhejiang, China), Lidong Guo (Zhejiang, China), Qiwei Yang (Zhejiang, China), Zhiguo Zhang (Zhejiang, China) and Yiwen Yang (Zhejiang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for separating mixed xylene includes steps that the mixed xylene is subjected to adsorption separation by means of an adsorbent having a metal organic framework material, so that one or more of xylene isomers are separated out. An organic ligand in the met...