ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,141, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Valero Services Inc. (San Antonio).

"Fluid catalytic cracking of renewable feedstocks" was invented by William A. Malatak (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to the field of renewable fuel production. More particularly, the disclosure is directed to systems and methods for processing renewable feedstocks in a fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) process unit to produce renewable gasoline, gasoline blendstocks, and/or other hydrocarbon products. The disclosure includes modifications to the point of introduction of the renewable feed into the FCC unit ...