ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,422, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CNX Resources Corp. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"System and method for efficient natural gas pretreatment" was invented by Joseph M. Fink (Washington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A natural gas pretreatment system includes a heat exchanger having a first inlet, a second inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet. The first inlet receives a first pressurized gas stream having a first input temperature, and the second inlet receives a second pressurized gas stream having a second temperature. The second temperature is higher than the first temperature. The first outlet outputs the first gas stream; ...