ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,111, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. (Baytown, Texas).
"Processes for converting C8 aromatic hydrocarbons" was invented by Eric D. Metzger (Houston), Mayank Shekhar (Houston), Wenyih F. Lai (Bridgewater, N.J.), Paul Podsiadlo (Spring, Texas), Dominick A. Zurlo (Easton, Pa.) and Kathleen M. Keville (Beaumont, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for converting C8 aromatic hydrocarbons. In some embodiments, the process can include feeding a gaseous hydrocarbon feed that can include meta-xylene, ortho-xylene, or both into a conversion zone. The process can also include contacting the gaseou...