US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Aug. 11 for "Process for the conversion of hydrocarbons to olefins" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,828, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Process for the conversion of hydrocarbons to olefins" was invented by Aaron Chi Akah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mansour Ali Al Herz (Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia), Qi Xu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ziyauddin S. Qureshi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Mohammed Aitani (Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed Abdul Bari Siddiqui (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for converting hydrocarbons in a hydrocarbon stream includes contacting the hydrocarbon stream with s...