ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,533, issued on July 1, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).
"Molecular sieve SSZ-116, its synthesis and use" was invented by Stacey Ian Zones (San Francisco), Jesus Pascual (Berkeley, Calif.), Dan Xie (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Cong-Yan Chen (Kensington, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel synthetic crystalline aluminogermanosilicate molecular sieve material, designated SSZ-116, is provided. SSZ-116 can be synthesized using 3-[(3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl)methyl]-1,2-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium cations as a structure directing agent. SSZ-116 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and/or sorptive proce...