ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,065, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).
"Drag reducing agent" was invented by David Koenigs (Pearland, Texas), Sean W. Ewart (Pearland, Texas), Troy E. Knight (Missouri City, Texas), Pritish M. Kamat (Pearland, Texas), Lixin Sun (Sugar Land, Texas) and Roger L Kuhlman (Lake Jackson, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a drag reducing agent. In an embodiment, the drag reducing agent includes a polymer and a liquid carrier. The polymer is composed of one or more C6-C14 Alpha-olefin monomers. The polymer includes a residual amount of zirconium. The polymer ha...