ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,195, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to EXXONMOIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).
"Oligomerization with ion-exchanged zeolites" was invented by Takayuki Iida (Iselin, N.J.), Michael A. Marella (Easton, Pa.), Suzzy C. Ho (Princeton, N.J.), Gerardo J. Majano (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Michael P. Lanci (Flemington, N.J.) and Trong Pham (Flemington, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catalysts and corresponding methods for oligomerization of olefins to distillate boiling range compounds are provided. The oligomerization can be performed in the presence of a catalyst including a 10-member ring or 1-D 12-member ring zeol...