Patents by Inventor Richard Vance Lawrence

Richard Vance Lawrence 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).

  • Single-step process to upgrade naphthas to an improved gasoline blending stock
    Patent number: 5690810
    Abstract: Disclosed is a one-step process intended as an alternative to catalytic reforming which upgrades naphthas by simultaneously saturating aromatics, isomerizing paraffins and selectively cracking heavier hydrocarbons which comprises contacting heavy naphtha feedstock in a reforming zone with a catalyst comprising a solid acid, optionally with a binder of Group III and/or IV of the Periodic Table, having a metal from Group VIII of the Periodic Table deposited thereon, wherein the reaction conditions are much milder than those typically used in catalytic reforming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Vance Lawrence, Pei-Shing Eugene Dai