ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,706, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Two stage catalytic process for mixed pyrolysis oil upgrading to BTEX" was invented by Miao Sun (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sohel K. Shaikh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Wojciech Andrzej Supronowicz (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Chandrasekar Subramani (Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia) and Eman Z. Albaher (Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a multi-stage process for upgrading a mixed pyrolysis oil comprising polyaromatic compounds to benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and x...