ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,035, issued on July 14, was assigned to Universitat Politecnica De Valencia (Valencia, Spain), Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas (Madrid).

"Methods and systems for the conversion of crude oil to petrochemical products" was invented by Avelino Corma Canos (Valencia, Spain), Laurent Louis Andre Sauvanaud (Ribarroja, Spain), Saad Al-Bogami (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Yannick Sylvain Mathieu (Valencia, Spain) and Ferran Torres Marti (Monocofa, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for processing a crude oil feedstock include introducing a crude oil stream to a reactive di...