ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,896, issued on April 14, was assigned to NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China) and NANJING GEKOF INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY & EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China).

"Solid heat carrier catalyst for thermal desorption of organic matter-contaminated soil and method for preparing same" was invented by Haitao Xu (Nanjing, China), Qijie Jin (Nanjing, China), Mutao Xu (Nanjing, China), Chengzhang Zhu (Nanjing, China), Yao Lu (Nanjing, China), Wei Yan (Nanjing, China), Mingbo Li (Nanjing, China) and Jing Song (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid heat carrier catalyst for thermal desorption of organi...