ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,561, issued on July 28, was assigned to CISDI Engineering Co. Ltd. (Chongquing, China).

"Blast furnace-converter steel production method based on carbon cycling" was invented by Xuewen Xiao (Chongqing, China), Zhongping Zou (Chongqing, China), Gang Wang (Chongqing, China), Yunjian Zhao (Chongqing, China), Qun Niu (Chongqing, China), Shifeng Hou (Chongqing, China), Jun Xu (Chongqing, China), Zhibin Hong (Chongqing, China), Muming Li (Chongqing, China) and Meng Long (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to the field of steel smelting, specifically to a method for steel production in a blast fur...