ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,170, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Method for purifying 1-hexene" was invented by Shahid Azam (Bangalore, India), Abdulmajeed Mohammed Al-Hamdan (Bangalore, India), Mohammed Fahad Al-Anazi (Bangalore, India), Bander Bawareth (Bangalore, India), Ashim Kumar Ghosh (Bangalore, India), Debashis Chakraborty (Bangalore, India), Somak Paul (Bangalore, India), Rajan V. Deshmukh (Bangalore, India), Ahmed Hussain Eissa (Bangalore, India), Omar A. Marghalani (Bangalore, India) and Sebastiano Licciulli (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for purifying 1-hex...