ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,655, issued on July 21, was assigned to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. (Baytown, Texas).

"Method and system for light olefin generation with high yields and selectivity" was invented by Saurabh S. Maduskar (Houston), Keith H. Kuechler (Friendswood, Texas) and Xiaoying Bao (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming an olefin, the method including: introducing a hydrocarbon feed stream into a reactor including a dehydrogenation catalyst; reacting the hydrocarbon feed stream with a dehydrogenation catalyst in the reactor to form a high temperature dehydrogenated product, the high temperature dehydrogenated product in...