ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,639, issued on June 23, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL PATENTS INC. (Baytown, Texas).
"Methods and systems for processing hydrocarbon streams" was invented by Yuti L. Yang (Houston) and Edison A. Rincon (Humble, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of processing hydrocarbons including depressurizing a hydrocarbon stream, vaporizing at least a portion of a non-vapor phase hydrocarbon of the stream, and separating first and second products. The first product includes at least a portion of the vaporized stream's vapor phase hydrocarbon that became vapor during the vaporization, and the sec...