US Patent Issued to Platinum Fuels on July 15 for "Blends of synthetic diesel fuel and petroleum diesel fuel with improved performance characteristics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,140, issued on July 15, was assigned to Platinum Fuels LLC (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Blends of synthetic diesel fuel and petroleum diesel fuel with improved performance characteristics" was invented by Robert Schuetzle (Sacramento, Calif.) and Dennis Schuetzle (Grass Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a blended fuel and methods for producing the blended fuel, wherein a synthetic fuel derived from a alternative resources such as natural gas, associated gas, biomass, or other feedstocks is blended with a traditional, petroleum derived fuel. A blended fuel which includes greater than 5% by volume o...