US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Aug. 25 for "Process to make finished base oils and white oils from dewaxed bulk base oils" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,037, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc..

"Process to make finished base oils and white oils from dewaxed bulk base oils" was invented by Kenny Peinado (Richmond, Calif.), Jay Parekh (Albany, Calif.), Jifei Jia (Hercules, Calif.), Yihua Zhang (Richmond, Calif.), Guan-Dao Lei (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Guang Zhang (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in one embodiment is an improved and more flexible process for preparing a finished base oil or a white oil product comprising passing a dewaxed base oil product to a distillation column and separating the dewaxed base oil product into fuel and ...