US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 18 for "Promoters for heterogeneous olefin metathesis" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,244, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Promoters for heterogeneous olefin metathesis" was invented by Yuriy Roman (Cambridge, Mass.), Shiran Zhang (Somerville, Mass.), Daniel Consoli (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sohel Shaikh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of improving metathesis of an olefin can include introducing a promoter to an olefin feed stream."

The patent was filed on May 8, 2020, under Application No. 16/870,192.

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