ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,363, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (Bengaluru, India).

"Composition for dispersed hydrodesulfurization catalyst and process for preparation of the same" was invented by Narasimharao Kanna (Bengaluru, India), Pradyut Dhar (Bengaluru, India), Valavarasu Gnanasekaran (Bengaluru, India) and Ramachandrarao Bojja (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a hydrodesulfurization (HDS) catalyst, a process for preparation of the catalyst, and a method of hydro-desulfurizing a hydrocarbon feedstock using the hydrodesulfurization catalyst."

The patent was filed...