US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 16 for "Reverse isomerization process using feedstock containing dissolved hydrogen" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,961, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Reverse isomerization process using feedstock containing dissolved hydrogen" was invented by Omer Refa Koseoglu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Vishvedeep Bhat (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Vinod Ramaseshan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for reverse isomerization of a light naphtha feedstock containing branched C5-C7 paraffins. The process includes feeding a mixed feed stream including the light naphtha feedstock to a separation unit to generate an iso-paraffin stream and one or more normal paraffin streams. The process f...