US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on May 12 for "Processes for upgrading hydrocarbon feedstock" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,301, issued on May 12, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Processes for upgrading hydrocarbon feedstock" was invented by Ki-Hyouk Choi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Young-Kyoung Ahn (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mamdouh Abdoun Al-Harbi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for upgrading a hydrocarbon feedstock may include introducing a hydrocarbon feedstock into a hydrocracking unit to obtain a hydrocracked product, introducing the hydrocracked product to a fractionation unit to obtain distillates and unconverted oil, the unconverted oil having a boiling point greater than 375deg C., intr...