ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,870, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAFETY ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Method and system for detecting structural performance of fire retardant disc" was invented by Lei Bao (Qingdao, China), Peng Wang (Qingdao, China), Anfeng Yu (Qingdao, China), Lili Ding (Qingdao, China), Wenyi Dang (Qingdao, China), Guoxin Chen (Qingdao, China), Meng Gu (Qingdao, China), Haozhe Wang (Qingdao, China) and Xiaodong Ling (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting structural performance of fire retardant disc includes th...