US Patent Issued to Chevron Phillips Chemical on Oct. 7 for "Chromium-catalyzed production of alcohols from hydrocarbons in the presence of oxygen" (Oklahoma, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,021, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Chromium-catalyzed production of alcohols from hydrocarbons in the presence of oxygen" was invented by Jared L. Barr (Bartlesville, Okla.), Carlos A. Cruz (Kingwood, Texas), Masud M. Monwar (Bartlesville, Okla.), Max P. McDaniel (Bartlesville, Okla.) and Kathy S. Clear (Bartlesville, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for converting a hydrocarbon reactant into an alcohol compound and/or a carbonyl compound are disclosed in which the hydrocarbon reactant and either a supported chromium (VI) catalyst or a supported chromium (II) ...