ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,156, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.).

"Hydrocarbon recovery unit with recycle loop for adsorbent bed regeneration" was invented by William B. Dolan (Iselin, N.J.) and Justin Pan (Iselin, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in certain embodiments are processes for heavy hydrocarbon removal that implement a regeneration loop that introduces an absorbent into a regeneration gas stream, and systems for implementing the same."

The patent was filed on Dec. 12, 2021, under Application No. 18/265,873.

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