ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,746, issued on April 29, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).
"Selective hydroisomerization catalyst" was invented by Steven F. Zink (Batavia, Ill.), David A. Lesch (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Wei Pan (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Joseph T. Kozlowski (Brookfield, Ill.), Sesh Prabhakar (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) and Sergio Sanchez (Des Plaines, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst is provided for hydrodeoxygenation and hydroisomerization of paraffins having higher activity. The catalyst contains a molecular sieve, such as SAPO-11, a metal component such as platinum and/or palladium or nickel tungsten sulfide or nickel molybdenum...