US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on July 8 for "Modified ZSM-5 for steam enhanced catalytic cracking of crude oil to light olefins and aromatics" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,760, issued on July 8, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Modified ZSM-5 for steam enhanced catalytic cracking of crude oil to light olefins and aromatics" was invented by Aaron Chi Akah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Mohammed Aitani (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Ziyauddin Qureshi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed Abdul Bari Siddiqui (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed comprises contacting the hydrocarbon feed with steam in th...