US Patent Issued to UOP on June 3 for "Process for converting olefins to distillate fuels with regeneration" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,880, issued on June 3, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Process for converting olefins to distillate fuels with regeneration" was invented by Manuela Serban (Northbrook, Ill.), Deng-Yang Jan (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), Ashish Mathur (Gurgaon, India), Joseph A. Montalbano (Bradenton, Fla.), Christopher Procopi (Glencoe, Ill.), Erick J. Bennett III (New Lenox, Ill.) and Jeannie Mee Blommel (Oregon, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for oligomerizing and oligomerizing olefins to distillate fuels which regenerates a first stage oligomerization catalyst bed and/or a second oligomerization catalyst bed in situ by contac...