ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,498, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Methods for forming light olefins that include use of cooled product as a recycled quench stream" was invented by Matthew T. Pretz (Lake Jackson, Texas), Hangyao Wang (Pearland, Texas), Anthony Plauck (Pearland, Texas) and Adam M. McNeeley (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one or more embodiments, a method for forming light olefins may comprise introducing a hydrocarbon feed stream into a reactor, reacting the hydrocarbon feed stream with a dehydrogenation catalyst in the reactor to from a high temperature dehydrogenated product, s...