ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,032, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOTALENERGIES ONETECH (Courbevoie, France).

"Biosourced hydrocarbon fluids" was invented by Christophe Hein (Courbevoie, France) and Benjamin Swoboda (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a hydrocarbon fluid comprising 75 to 95% by weight of isoparaffins and less than 500 ppm by weight of aromatics relative to the total weight of the hydrocarbon fluid, said fluid having an initial boiling point and a final boiling point in the range of 120 to 240deg C. and a flash point lower than 90deg C. The invention also concerns the use of the hydrocarbon fluid of the in...