US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Sept. 29 for "Processes for direct conversion of crude oil to light olefins and light aromatics through steam enhanced catalytic cracking over a core shell cracking catalyst" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,398, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Processes for direct conversion of crude oil to light olefins and light aromatics through steam enhanced catalytic cracking over a core shell cracking catalyst" was invented by Aaron Chi Akah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ziyauddin Qureshi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Mohammed Aitani (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Abdul Bari Siddiqui (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Mansour Ali Al-Herz (Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia), Qi Xu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulkadir Tanimu (Dhahran, Saudi A...