ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,653, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOTALENERGIES ONETECH (Courbevoie, France), UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG-UNISTRA (Strasbourg Cedex, France) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-CNRS (Paris Cedex, France).
"Process for catalytic non-oxidative conversion of saturated hydrocarbons using a carbon-based catalyst" was invented by Stijn Van Daele (Seneffe, Belgium), Nikolai Nesterenko (Seneffe, Belgium), Jean-Pierre Dath (Seneffe, Belgium), Miroslave Kettner (Seneffe, Belgium), Cuong Pham-Huu (Strasbourg, France), Jean-Mario Nhut (Plobsheim, France) and Zhenxin Xu (Shanxi, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inv...