ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,016, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Flexible benzene production via selective-higher-olefin oligomerization of ethylene" was invented by Steven M. Bischof (Spring, Texas), Gregory G. Hendrickson (Kingwood, Texas), Uriah J. Kilgore (Kennewick, Wash.), Bruce E. Kreischer (Kingwood, Texas), Scott G. Morrison (Kingwood, Texas), Ryan W. Snell (Jubail Industrial, Saudi Arabia) and Orson L. Sydora (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the integration of systems and methods associated with steam cracking, oligomerization reactions, hydro...