ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,889, issued on April 14, was assigned to EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Shanghai).

"Packing element, structured packing and use of structured packing" was invented by Yuan Zong (Shanghai), Gance Dai (Shanghai), Long He (Shanghai) and Hanguang Xie (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of packings, and in particular, to a packing element, a structured packing and an application of the structured packing. The packing element includes a collection-predistribution unit, a fluid uniform distribution unit, and an opening window unit that are sequentially arranged. T...