US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, King Abdullah University of Scient and Technology on Dec. 2 for "Methods for processing hydrocarbon feedstocks" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,466, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Abdullah University of Scient and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods for processing hydrocarbon feedstocks" was invented by Robert Peter Hodgkins (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Omer Refa Koseoglu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Kuo-Wei Huang (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Magnus Rueping (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Anissa Bendjeriou-Sedjerari (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Rajesh Kumar Parsapur (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Manoja K. Samantaray (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for processing a hydrocarbon feedstock may include cracking at l...