ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,691, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Process for producing mixed alcohols from purge stream containing octene" was invented by Michael A. Brammer (Freeport, Texas), Sean W. Ewart (Lake Jackson, Texas), Wanglin Yu (Lake Jackson, Texas), Bruce D. Hook (Lake Jackson, Texas), Sally Demaio-Turner (Lake Jackson, Texas), Sung-Yu Ku (Lake Jackson, Texas), Yujun Liu (Lake Jackson, Texas), Jin Liu (Freeport, Texas) and Jianping Zeng (Lake Jackson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a process. In an embodiment, the process includes providing a purge stream com...