ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,284, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods for processing liquid organic hydrogen carriers" was invented by Guanghui Zhu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Raed Abudawoud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Faisal M. Almulla (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Anas S. Al-Aqeeli (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more liquid organic hydrogen carriers may be processed by a method that includes passing one or more hydrogen-diminished liquid organic hydrogen carriers and hydrogen into a hydrogenation reactor to form a hydrogenation reactor effluent. The hydrogenation reactor effluent may in...