US Patent Issued to Exterran Water Solutions on Jan. 13 for "Device and method for containing, covering, and treating produced water in a container" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,517, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Exterran Water Solutions ULC (Calgary, Canada).

"Device and method for containing, covering, and treating produced water in a container" was invented by Todd William Kirk (Rockyview County, Canada), Daniel Clifford Whitney (Cochrane, Canada), Asir Thambiraja (Chennai, India), Roger George (Katy, Texas) and Abheek Banerjee (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for covering a water container having an open top and treating a source water therein. The apparatus has one or more dividing walls mountable to an interior space of the water container for partitioning it into multi...