US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 23 for "Estimation of alkyl substituent carbon number of aromatic compounds using gel permeation chromatography retention time and prediction models" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,416, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Estimation of alkyl substituent carbon number of aromatic compounds using gel permeation chromatography retention time and prediction models" was invented by Saroj Kumar Panda (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed S. Elanany (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah A. Al-Zahrani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Hendrik Muller (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Sarafaraz Alam (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods to estimate the carbon number of an alkyl substituent (number of carbon atoms in the alkyl substituent) of an ...