US Patent Issued to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 5 for "Methods for producing ethylene and propylene from naphtha" (Saudi Arabia, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. RE50,515, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Methods for producing ethylene and propylene from naphtha" was invented by Nabil Al-Yassir (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed A. Siddiqui (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mian Rahat Saeed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah M. Aitani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sulaiman S. Al-Khattaf (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed S. Alzenaidi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Vidya Sagar Guggilla (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed subject matter relates to methods of producing ethylene and propylene by the catalytic steam cracking of na...