ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,171, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING Co. LTD. (Beijing).
"Continuous process for the preparation of exo-tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene" was invented by Zhaolin Fu (Beijing), Zhiping Tao (Beijing), Enhui Xing (Beijing), Yibin Luo (Beijing), Xingtian Shu (Beijing), Jie Zhao (Beijing), Rui Yan (Beijing), Dandan Jia (Beijing), Zhongpeng Zhu (Beijing) and Weiping Zheng (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous process for preparing exo-THDCPD by isomerization of endo-THDCPD includes the step of passing endo-THDCPD and hydrogen gas ...