US Patent Issued to COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH on April 15 for "Fluid catalytic cracking of p-cresol dimer into phenolic monomers and process thereof" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,695, issued on April 15, was assigned to COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH (New Delhi).

"Fluid catalytic cracking of p-cresol dimer into phenolic monomers and process thereof" was invented by Desavath V. Naik (Dehradun, India), Samir Kumar Maity (Dehradun, India), Bharat Singh Rana (Dehradun, India), Pankaj Kumar Kanaujia (Dehradun, India), Ashish Rana (Dehradun, India) and Deependra Tripathi (Dehradun, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid catalytic cracking process for p-cresol dimer to produce valuable phenolic monomers, i.e., 2-methyl phenol, 4-methyl phenol, 2,3-xylenol, and phenol, uses an equilibrium catalyst (...