Patents by Inventor Jane Mercer

Jane Mercer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Process for cracking and transhydrogenation of hydrocarbon feedstock
    Patent number: 5837127
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon feedstock is cracked, and then the cracker product is compressed and separated into various hydrocarbon fractions including a stream containing hydrocarbons more highly unsaturated than mono-olefins. That stream is used for transhydrogenation with at least one paraffin and the products from transhydrogenation are combined with the cracker product before the compression thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Arthur Gough, Stephen Keith Turner, Jane Mercer, Edmund Hugh Stitt