ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,045, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NANJING GEKOF INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY & EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China), NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China), JIANGSU DEYITONG ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China) and NANJING LIUYAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Device and method for preparing sulfite" was invented by Haitao Xu (Nanjing, China), Yanzhong Xu (Nanjing, China), Mingbo Li (Nanjing, China), Renyuan Chen (Nanjing, China), Dahua Liu (Nanjing, China), Junmin Li (Nanjing, China) and Jing Song (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dev...