ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,954, issued on March 24, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).
"Processing feedstocks" was invented by Sven Ivar Hommeltoft (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and William Richard Boorujy (Livermore, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples herein provide a method of processing a feedstock. The feedstock may be flowed into a reactor. A catalyst may be flowed into the reactor. Within the reactor, the feedstock may be converted over the catalyst, at an average reaction temperature, to a product stream. The product stream may be withdrawn from the reactor. A stream of the catalyst may be withdrawn from the reactor. Sa...