US Patent Issued to Chevron Phillips Chemical on Feb. 10 for "Methods of preparing a catalyst utilizing hydrated reagents" (Oklahoma, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,745, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Methods of preparing a catalyst utilizing hydrated reagents" was invented by Max P. McDaniel (Bartlesville, Okla.), Kathy S. Clear (Bartlesville, Okla.), Jeremy M. Praetorius (Bartlesville, Okla.), Eric D. Schwerdtfeger (Bartlesville, Okla.), Mitchell D. Refvik (Kingwood, Texas) and Mark L. Hlavinka (Kingwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising a) contacting a solvent, a carboxylic acid, and a peroxide-containing compound to form an acidic mixture wherein a weight ratio of solvent to carboxylic acid in the acidic mi...