US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on May 27 for "Method for manufacture of zeolite mordenite in the presence of ODSO" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,246, issued on May 27, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for manufacture of zeolite mordenite in the presence of ODSO" was invented by Robert P. Hodgkins (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Omer Refa Koseoglu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a method of manufacture of mordenite zeolites. This is accomplished by using an improved sol-gel formulation including a water-soluble fraction of ODSO as an additional component. The resulting products are, or contain, mordenite zeolites, with increased yield."

The patent was filed on April 13, 2022, under A...