US Patent Issued to Changchun Meihe Science and Technology Development, The Coca-Cola on April 21 for "Methods for preparing diol" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,506, issued on April 21, was assigned to Changchun Meihe Science and Technology Development Co. LTD (Jilin, China) and The Coca-Cola Co. (Atlanta).

"Methods for preparing diol" was invented by Jing Liu (Changchun, China), Hongbin Qi (Changchun, China), Haiyu Ren (Atlanta), Indra Prakash (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Yu Shi (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for preparing a diol. In the method, a saccharide and hydrogen as raw materials are contacted with a catalyst in water to prepare the diol. The employed catalyst is a composite catalyst comprised of a main catalyst and a cocatalyst, wherein the main cataly...