US Patent Issued to Advanced Refining Technologies on Oct. 7 for "High activity hydrotreating catalysts and processes using same" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,283, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Advanced Refining Technologies LLC (Columbia, Md.).

"High activity hydrotreating catalysts and processes using same" was invented by Jifei Jia (Hercules, Calif.), Bi-Zeng Zhan (Albany, Calif.) and Michael Manto (Tinley Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supported catalyst for hydroprocessing, hydrotreating or hydrocracking hydrocarbon feedstocks, the supported catalyst comprising at least one metal from Group 6 and at least one metal from Groups 8, 9, or 10 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, and optionally comprising phosphorous. The Group 6 metal comprises about 30 to about 45 wt. %...