ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,022, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Liaoning, China).

"Distributed low energy dynamic thermal management system for solid matter prevention and control in oil and gas transportation pipeline" was invented by Yongchen Song (Liaoning, China), Cong Chen (Liaoning, China), Yingying Cui (Liaoning, China), Jiafei Zhao (Liaoning, China), Mingjun Yang (Liaoning, China), Weiguo Liu (Liaoning, China), Yu Liu (Liaoning, China), Yi Zhang (Liaoning, China), Yan Qin (Liaoning, China), Lanlan Jiang (Liaoning, China), Zheng Ling (Liaoning, China), Yubai Li (Liaoning, China), Yuechao Zhao (Liaoning, China) and Lunxiang Zhang (Liaoning, China).

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