US Patent Issued to BASF on June 24 for "Fluid catalytic cracking catalyst composition for enhanced butylene to propylene selectivity ratio" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,208, issued on June 24, was assigned to BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.).

"Fluid catalytic cracking catalyst composition for enhanced butylene to propylene selectivity ratio" was invented by Wathudura Indika Namal De Silva (Iselin, N.J.), David M. Stockwell (Iselin, N.J.), Bilge Yilmaz (Iselin, N.J.) and Junmei Wei (Iselin, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a fluid catalyst cracking (FCC) catalyst composition that includes a first component and a second component. The first component and second component may be separate microspheroidal FCC catalysts or may be incorporated in a common microspheroidal FCC catalyst....