US Patent Issued to MANGALORE REFINERY & PETROCHEMICALS on May 27 for "Isobutyl benzene and a process for synthesis of isobutyl benzene by using a catalyst" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,290, issued on May 27, was assigned to MANGALORE REFINERY & PETROCHEMICALS LTD. (Mangalore, India).

"Isobutyl benzene and a process for synthesis of isobutyl benzene by using a catalyst" was invented by Sanjay Pandurag Kamble (Pune, India), Chandrashekhar Vasant Rode (Pune, India), Nandakumar Velayudhan Pillai (Aluva Ernakulam, India), Karthick Ramalingam (Abatharanapuram Vadalur, India) and Rohit Ravi Shetty (Kolhapur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a process for the synthesis of isobutyl benzene by side chain alkylation of toluene in the presence of a catalyst. The catalyst used in the process ...