ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,145, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. (Spring, Texas).
"Natural gas sweetening methods and related systems" was invented by Priya Santhanam (Spring, Texas), P. Scott Northrop (Spring, Texas), Shwetha Ramkumar (Cypress, Texas), John Timothy Cullinane (Montgomery, Texas) and Sean T. Philbrook (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for sweetening natural gas may utilize a water wash to achieve a reduction in raw natural gas stream contaminants (e.g., particulate contaminants and/or chemical contaminants) and/or to recover solvent used for re...