ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,391, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CNPC USA Corp. (Houston), BEIJING HUAMEI INC. (Beijing) and CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM Corp. (Beijing).

"Preparation of degradable polyester composites and use thereof" was invented by Peixiang Xing (Houston), Jiaxiang Ren (Houston) and Peng Cheng (Sugard Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The polyester based polymer composition includes a polyester, a metal oxide, and a metal hydroxide. The polymer composites contains the metal oxide and a metal hydroxide made from melting blending has good mechanical property as well as greater degradability after a required time in the higher temperature...