US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 14 for "Processes for making mesophase pitch" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,027, issued on July 14, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Processes for making mesophase pitch" was invented by Mohammad Alroaithi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Khalid Ali Almajnouni (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Ali Alharbi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for making a mesophase pitch may include passing an aromatics-rich feed into a reactor and subjecting the aromatics-rich feed to a temperature of greater than or equal to 350deg C. and a pressure of from 20 bar to 40 bar for a duration of from 4 hours to 10 hours in the reactor to produce the mesophase pitch. The total amount of m...