US Patent Issued to CAMERON INTERNATIONAL on Sept. 30 for "Power unit phase angle for separation unit control" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,441, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CAMERON INTERNATIONAL Corp. (Houston).

"Power unit phase angle for separation unit control" was invented by Gary W. Sams (Spring, Texas) and S. Pavankumar B. Mandewalkar (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a method of separating a liquid mixture, comprising providing a liquid mixture to a separator, electrically coupling a power circuit to the liquid mixture inside the separator, applying a time-varying voltage to the power circuit, detecting a phase angle in the power circuit; and controlling the phase angle by adjusting a characteristic of the time-v...