ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,023, issued on Oct. 7.
"System and method for solids measurement on sand separator accumulators" was invented by Diogo Cesar Piasseski (Dubai, United Arab Emirates).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for weight measurement of solids in a flow stream. The system collects the solids from the flow stream in a recipient that is slidably mounted within a pressurized accumulator vessel, which is pressurized with a variable pressure due to the flow stream. A recipient stem connects the weight of the recipient to a load cell. A force on the recipient stem includes both the force of the weight of the solids and a force produced by the vari...