US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering on July 7 for "Hydro-dealkylation process to generate high quality fuels, base stocks and waxes" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,104, issued on July 7, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Hydro-dealkylation process to generate high quality fuels, base stocks and waxes" was invented by Jonathan D. Webb (Bridgewater, N.J.), Shifang Luo (Annandale, N.J.), Xinrui Yu (Furlong, Pa.) and Hyung Suk Woo (Easton, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods of hydro-dealkylation of hydrocarbon feedstock to produce an intermediate hydrocarbon product having a boiling point at T10 of greater than about 500deg F.+ by distillation method ASTM D7169 and a viscosity index greater than about 120 in accordance with ASTM D2270 wh...