ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,952, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAUDI ARAMCO TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for drying compounds" was invented by Mohammad S. Alroaithi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Hussain M. Yami (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ali M. Albarakati (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Wei Xu (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to methods and systems for drying polyol starters, as well as reaction mixtures including such polyol starters, and the preparation of polymers derived from such polyol starters. In some embodiments, the present invention encompasses methods of drying a polyol initia...