US Patent Issued to Alliance for Sustainable Energy on March 4 for "Nozzles for reduced coking and plugging in high temperature operations" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,969, issued on March 4, was assigned to Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Nozzles for reduced coking and plugging in high temperature operations" was invented by Kimberly A. Magrini (Golden, Colo.), Michael William Sprague (Golden, Colo.), Zia Abdullah (Littleton, Colo.), Jessica L. Olstad-Thompson (Arvada, Colo.) and Reinhard Seiser (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a device for directing a coking-prone liquid to a high temperature environment, where the device includes an inner tube positioned concentrically within an outer tube, creating a first annular space betwee...