ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,759, issued on June 9, was assigned to ANHUI JINHE INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD (Chuzhou City, China).

"Device and method for preparing sucrose-6-ester" was invented by Jiaxin Xia (Chuzhou, China), Jingang Zhao (Chuzhou, China), Zhengsong Zhang (Chuzhou, China), Zhenghua Li (Chuzhou, China), Congyong Zhang (Chuzhou, China) and Xuelian Zheng (Chuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a device and a method for preparing a sucrose-6-ester. The device includes a tank body, a heating pipe, an annular cooling apparatus, and a motor, wherein the annular cooling device and the heating pipe are arranged in the tank body in nested manne...