US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on March 31 for "Converting a renewable fuel intermediate composition to finished transportation fuel" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,255, issued on March 31, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Converting a renewable fuel intermediate composition to finished transportation fuel" was invented by Jinyi Han (San Ramon, Calif.), Horacio Trevino (Richmond, Calif.), Guan Dao Lei (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Sven Ivar Hommeltoft (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and Brian Crawford Adams (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for converting a renewable fuel intermediate composition to finished transportation fuel are provided herein. In some examples, a renewable fuel intermediate composition is flowed over a first catalyst in a first ...