ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,173, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CleanJoule Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Method of production of bicyclic hydrocarbons" was invented by Matthew Raymond Crawley (Amherst, N.Y.), Oyvind Hatlevik (West Valley City, Utah), Robert Andrew Price (Salt Lake City), Mukund Karanjikar (Salt Lake City) and Timothy Raymond Cook (Amherst, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a bicyclic hydrocarbon molecule includes oxidizing a terpene molecule to provide a first intermediate compound, wherein the first intermediate compound includes an aldehyde functional group, reacting the first intermediate compound with a 1,3-diene molecu...