ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,423, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. (Baytown, Texas).

"Hydrocarbon conversion processes" was invented by Krystle J. Emanuele (Hummelstown, Pa.), Teng Xu (Houston) and Maryam Peer (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hydrocarbon conversion processes. The process can include providing a gas oil feed that can include a gas oil and an olefin. A reactivity R(go) of the gas oil feed can be determined. The R(go) can be compared to a predetermined reference reactivity R(ref). If R(go)less thanR(ref), the gas oil feed can be heated to a temperature in a range of from 200deg C. to 400deg C. for...