ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,503, issued on April 21, was assigned to Lummus Technology LLC (Houston).

"Paraffin dehydrogenation reactor electric heater" was invented by William Scott Neifert (Houston), Sunil Panditrao (Houston), Kandasamy Sundaram (Houston) and Gary Podrebarac (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for dehydrogenating a paraffinic feedstock, producing olefins and/or dienes. The process includes feeding a paraffinic hydrocarbon feedstock comprising one or more C2+ paraffinic hydrocarbons and a fuel gas stream to a dehydrogenation reactor preheater, combusting the fuel gas stream in the dehydrogenation reactor preheater and heating th...