ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,898, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and processes for reforming a liquid hydrocarbon fuel" was invented by Guanghui Zhu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Maryam M. Al-Taher (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Qingyuan Hu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one or more other aspects of the present disclosure, a system for reforming a liquid hydrocarbon fuel includes a mixing zone with a fuel intake fluidly coupled to a liquid hydrocarbon fuel source and an oxygen-containing gas intake fluidly coupled to an oxygen-containing gas source. The mixing zone further inc...