ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,270, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Exelus Inc. (Fairfield, N.J.).

"Decarbonized olefins production using process intensification" was invented by Mitrajit Mukherjee (Fairfield, N.J.), Vamsi M. Vadhri (North Arlington, N.J.), Narendra Joshi (Jersey City, N.J.) and Sankaran Sundaresan (Fairfield, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixed metal oxide Selective Oxygen Carrier (SOC) suitable for the selective oxidation of hydrogen comprising bismuth oxides, rare earth oxides, and a dopant of Ti, Zr, and Hf and is characterizable by a high level of oxygen carrying capacity, selectivity and stability. The SOC can be synthesized usi...