ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,286, issued on May 13, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for separation and quantitation of benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, o-xylene, m-xylene, and p-xylene (BTEX) using high performance liquid chromatography" was invented by Saroj Kumar Panda (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Amal Lajami (Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Robert Peter Hodgkins (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Omer Refa Koseoglu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for quantitation of benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, o-xylene, m-xylene, and p-xylene. High-performance liquid chromatography using a carbon s...