US Patent Issued to REG Synthetic Fuels on Dec. 16 for "Decarboxylative co-dimerization process and synthetic fuels produced therefrom" (Iowa, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,567, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to REG Synthetic Fuels LLC (Ames, Iowa).

"Decarboxylative co-dimerization process and synthetic fuels produced therefrom" was invented by Ramin Abhari (Bixby, Okla.) and Nate Green (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, the application discloses a method for producing renewable hydrocarbon fuels where the method includes electrolysis of a mixture to produce an electrolysis product comprising a renewable diesel and optionally a renewable gasoline, where the mixture includes (i) free fatty acids from a biorenewable feedstock, and (ii) terminal monomethyl-branched carboxylic acids, ...