ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,982, issued on July 21, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SHANGHAI RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, SINOPEC (Shanghai).

"Gas-liquid bubbling bed reactor, reaction system, and process for synthesizing carbonate ester" was invented by Yinchuan Liu (Shanghai), Weisheng Yang (Shanghai), Na Li (Shanghai), Dizong Sun (Shanghai) and Wenjun He (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a gas-liquid bubbling bed reactor, comprising a liquid distributor, a gas distributor located below the liquid distributor, a catalyst bed layer and a catalyst support plate, and an opti...