US Patent Issued to Basell Poliolefine Italia on June 3 for "Process and system for collecting catalyst or polymer samples from an operation unit of a polymerization plant" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,755, issued on June 3, was assigned to Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l. (Milan).

"Process and system for collecting catalyst or polymer samples from an operation unit of a polymerization plant" was invented by Paolo Capisani (Ferrara, Italy), Nicolo Arich De Finetti (Ferrara, Italy) and Pietro Baita (Ferrara, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process (and a related system) for collecting samples of a polymerization catalyst or of a catalyst-containing polymer from an operation unit, having an upper end and a lower end, of a polymerization plant, including the steps of: a) extracting a prefixed amount of product from the lower end...