ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,233, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to BASF Corp. (FLorham Park, N.J.).

"Adsorbent bed with increased hydrothermal stability" was invented by William B. Dolan (Iselin, N.J.), Margaret Anne Greene (Iselin, N.J.), Justin Pan (Iselin, N.J.), Tobias Eckardt (Nienburg/Weser, Germany), Joerg Nagy (Nienburg/Weser, Germany) and Robert Lepski (Nienburg/Weser, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in certain embodiments are methods of removing water, mercaptans, C5+ or C6+ hydrocarbons, or any combination thereof from a gas feed stream during an adsorption step of an adsorption cycle."

The patent was filed on April 1, 2022, under Ap...