US Patent Issued to CRYSTAPHASE PRODUCTS on March 11 for "Use of treating elements to facilitate flow in vessels" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,596, issued on March 11, was assigned to CRYSTAPHASE PRODUCTS INC. (Houston).

"Use of treating elements to facilitate flow in vessels" was invented by John N. Glover (Houston), Peter Gregory Ham (Houston) and Austin Schneider (Humble, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for facilitating the distribution of the flow of one or more streams within a bed vessel is provided. Disposed within the bed vessel are internal materials and structures including multiple operating zones. One type of operating zone can be a processing zone composed of one or more beds of solid processing material. Another type of operating zone can be a t...