US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 14 for "Methods of processing hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,031, issued on July 14, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods of processing hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide" was invented by Emad Naji Al-Shafei (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ammar H. Alahmed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Z. Al-Bahar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammad F. Aljishi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmed K. Asseel (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide may include combining a hydrocarbon mixture with carbon dioxide to produce a reactant mixture, which may include at least 95 mol. % of the combination of the hydrocarbon mixtu...