ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,804, issued on March 24, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SHANGHAI RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, SINOPEC (Shanghai).

"Process of converting methanol to olefins" was invented by Hongyuan Zong (Shanghai), Guozhen Qi (Shanghai), Jing Cao (Shanghai), Hongtao Wang (Shanghai), Zhinan Yu (Shanghai) and Yijun Zheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process of converting methanol to olefins, comprising: feeding a feedstock comprising methanol to a fluidized bed reactor to contact with catalysts to produce an olefin product, wherein the process at least ...