Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Combing the Conferences: A Google Patents Tip

“The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.” -- Jorge Luis Borges (Argentinian Poet and Essayist, 1899-1986)

TIP: Comb conference programs for the names of companies to search in Google Patents.

Take, for example, the Asia Refining & Technologies Conference-ARTC 17th Annual Meeting, scheduled for Singapore, 5-6 March 2014 (http://events.gtforum.com/artc-annual-meeting).  Reading through the program, I noted a category of presentations labeled “Residual Upgrading and Heavy Oil.”

I then searched several of the companies in Google Patents, using the following search string pattern.

desulfurization OR dibenzothiophene inassignee:albemarle

Several interesting patents came up, including …

Catalytic cracking and hydroprocessing process for high diesel yield with low aromatic content and/or high propylene yield

Take a look at the ARTC program and search for some of the other companies on the presentation list.


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