ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,345, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Process and catalyst for converting natural gasoline to light olefins" was invented by Abeer S. Arjah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Qi Xu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed AlAmer (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Mohammad Mozahar Hossain (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sagir Adamu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Akolade Idris Bakare (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to methods of and catalyst systems for converting natural gasoline liquid (NGL) ...