ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,080, issued on June 2, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Oligomeriser with an improved feed system" was invented by Ignacio Vic Fernandez (Carretera Cartagena, Spain), Fernan Mateos Salvador (Carretera Cartagena, Spain) and Surya Prakasa Rao Daliparthi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a reactor for carrying out a melt transesterification reaction at a reactor temperature of 160 to 300deg C. and a reactor pressure of 5 to 200 mbar, comprises a cylindrical tank comprising a top, a side, and a bottom, wherein the bottom is convex, extending away from the top; ...