ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,519, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Group-type analysis of hydrocarbon samples" was invented by Hendrik Muller (Al Khubar, Saudi Arabia), Mansour Al-Herz (Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia), Nadrah A. Alawani (Al-Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Saroj Kumar Panda (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Lianhui Ding (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods for reactivity-based group-type analysis of a hydrocarbon sample. An exemplary method includes determining a representative composition of each of two or more portions of the sample, determining a mass fractio...