US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on April 29 for "Method of cracking a hydrocarbon" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,397, issued on April 29, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of cracking a hydrocarbon" was invented by Zuhair Omar Malaibari (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ijaz Hussain (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cracking a hydrocarbon including contacting the hydrocarbon with a catalyst; where on the contacting, the hydrocarbon is cracked into a plurality of compounds, each having a smaller number of carbon atoms than the hydrocarbon. The catalyst includes an aluminosilicate zeolite, the aluminosilicate zeolite includes a weight ratio of SiO2 to Al2O3 of ...