US Patent Issued to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL, SHANGHAI RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, SINOPEC on April 21 for "Method for preparing p-xylene by biomass conversion" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,502, issued on April 21, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SHANGHAI RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, SINOPEC (Shanghai).

"Method for preparing p-xylene by biomass conversion" was invented by Weimin Yang (Shanghai), Xiangcheng Li (Shanghai), Zhendong Wang (Shanghai), Xinqiang Feng (Shanghai), Xiao Han (Shanghai), Rui Xu (Shanghai), Chuang Liu (Shanghai), Zhiqing Yuan (Shanghai) and Jian Qiao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing paraxylene by biomass conversion includes the following steps: (1) contacting a biomass starting material with a hydrogenation catalyst fo...