US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Sept. 23 for "Molecular sieve SSZ-116, its synthesis and use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,270, issued on Sept. 23, 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) and Jesus Pascual (Berkeley, 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 processes. This disclosure also relates to the structure directing ...