US Patent Issued to BL Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Monitoring and control of unwanted polymer by-product generated in monomers production, storage, and handling using infrared spectroscopy analysis" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,860, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BL Technologies Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Monitoring and control of unwanted polymer by-product generated in monomers production, storage, and handling using infrared spectroscopy analysis" was invented by Chaowei Feng (Tomball, Texas), Eric Le (Tomball, Texas), Bryan Crom (Tomball, Texas) and Nimeshkumar Patel (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring and controlling unwanted polymer byproduct generated in a monomer production, storage, or handling process, for example polystyrene in a styrene production process, is described. The method comprises receiving a samp...