US Patent Issued to BP Corporation North America, on June 30 for "Co-processing of renewable feedstocks in petroleum processing" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,749, issued on June 30, was assigned to BP Corporation North America, Inc. (Houston).

"Co-processing of renewable feedstocks in petroleum processing" was invented by Paul Ziegelaar (Naperville, Ill.), John Shabaker (Naperville, Ill.), Christoph Schmitz (Naperville, Ill.), Vincent Kispersky (Lisle, Ill.) and Nigel Philip Wells (Ashford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to processes for handling renewable hydrocarbon feeds and conventional hydrocarbon feeds. One aspect of the disclosure provides a process for co-processing a renewable feed and a petroleum feed, the process comprising...