ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,262, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAFETY ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).

"Flame arrester capable of automatically eliminating defects of fire arresting portion" was invented by Anfeng Yu (Qingdao, China), Peng Wang (Qingdao, China), Lei Bao (Qingdao, China), Zhe Yang (Qingdao, China), Xiaodong Ling (Qingdao, China), Jinling Liu (Qingdao, China), Yazhen Wang (Qingdao, China), Yuntao Mu (Qingdao, China), Yihao Wang (Qingdao, China) and Xue Jiang (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flame arrester capable of automatically eliminating def...