US Patent Issued to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL, SINOPEC EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Nov. 18 for "Oil-water separation device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,449, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SINOPEC EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Beijing).

"Oil-water separation device" was invented by Changchao Hu (Beijing), Xiaoxuan Xu (Beijing), Wei Dang (Beijing), Pengyuan Ding (Beijing), Xingwang Wang (Beijing), Zhiwei Tang (Beijing), Wenjie Tan (Beijing), Lili Wang (Beijing), Yanxiao Si (Beijing) and Caixia Bi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oil-water separation apparatus has a housing that contains at least one longitudinal plate member arranged in a longitudinal direction of the housing (10) and inclined relative to a ho...