US Patent Issued to EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL PATENTS on Oct. 7 for "Processes for producing polyolefins and impact copolymers with broad molecular weight distribution and high stiffness" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,167, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL PATENTS INC. (Baytown, Texas).

"Processes for producing polyolefins and impact copolymers with broad molecular weight distribution and high stiffness" was invented by Xiaodan Zhang (Houston), Christopher G. Bauch (Seabrook, Texas), Lubin Luo (Houston), Jeffrey L. Brinen (League City, Texas), George J. Pehlert (Houston), Todd S. Edwards (League City, Texas) and Sung A. Kim (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of polymerizing Alpha-olefin monomer with a catalyst and hydrogen in a slurry to produce low molecular weight polyolefins. Hydrogen is vente...