ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,505, issued on April 21, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAFETY ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Method for reducing risk of burning and explosion in deoxygenation process of oxygen-containing gas" was invented by Zhe Yang (Qingdao, China), Jie Jiang (Qingdao, China), Song Wen (Qingdao, China), Changsheng Zhang (Qingdao, China), Wei Xu (Qingdao, China), Bing Sun (Qingdao, China), Jinchong Zhao (Qingdao, China), Yunfeng Zhu (Qingdao, China), Shoutao Ma (Qingdao, China) and Yuxia Zhang (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing the risk of bu...