ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,224, issued on June 23, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and BEIJING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing).

"Heat transfer enhancement pipe as well as cracking furnace and atmospheric and vacuum heating furnace including the same" was invented by Guoqing Wang (Beijing), Junjie Liu (Beijing), Lijun Zhang (Beijing), Cong Zhou (Beijing), Zhaobin Zhang (Beijing), Shasha Yang (Beijing), Dongfa Shen (Beijing), Xiaofeng Li (Beijing), Shifang Yang (Beijing), Zhiguo Du (Beijing), Yonggang Zhang (Beijing), Ying Shi (Beijing) and Jinghang Guo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark O...