ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,153, issued on June 16, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC (Beijing).

"Carbon-supported platinum group metal catalyst, preparation method therefor and use thereof" was invented by Hong Zhao (Beijing), Junfeng Rong (Beijing), Houpeng Wang (Beijing), Jiakang Zhang (Beijing), Qian Peng (Beijing), Xianrui Gu (Beijing), Yunge Zhang (Beijing) and Nanhong Xie (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platinum-on-carbon catalyst, a preparation method therefor and the use thereof are provided. Among S2P spectral peaks thereof analyzed by means of XPS between 160 e...