US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents on Feb. 17 for "Enhanced production of lightly branched olefin oligomers through olefin oligomerization" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,730, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. (Baytown, Texas).

"Enhanced production of lightly branched olefin oligomers through olefin oligomerization" was invented by Anita Borowiec (Woluwe Saint Lambert, Belgium), Shiwen Li (Quaregnon, Belgium), Wenyih Lai (Bridgewater, N.J.), Jocelyn Kowalski (Mullica Hill, N.J.), Marcel Janssen (Kessel-Lo, Belgium), Travis Reine (Seabrook, Texas) and Luc Martens (Meise, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feed mixture comprising at least one C3 olefin and/or at least one C4 olefin may be contacted with a zeolite catalyst under oligomerization reaction conditions ...