US Patent Issued to ExxonMobile Technology and Engineering on June 23 for "Processes and systems for co-processing a hydrocarbon feed and a heavy feed containing a plastic material" (Texas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,635, issued on June 23, was assigned to ExxonMobile Technology and Engineering Co. (Baytown, Texas).

"Processes and systems for co-processing a hydrocarbon feed and a heavy feed containing a plastic material" was invented by Kara R. Radford (Houston), David Spicer (Houston), Saurabh S. Maduskar (Houston), Theodore W. Walker (Chittenango, N.Y.), Alison M. Miller (Houston) and Steven M. Slack (Humble, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and systems for hydrocarbon pyrolysis. In some embodiments, a hydrocarbon can be heated within a convection section of a steam cracking furnace and combined with an aqueous fluid to produce a...