US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on May 27 for "Self-cleaning conduits for hydrocarbon fluids" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,330, issued on May 27, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Self-cleaning conduits for hydrocarbon fluids" was invented by Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Hiranya Nath (Bengaluru, India), Thomas D. Woodrow (Wyoming, Ohio), Scott Alan Schimmels (Miamisburg, Ohio), Arvind Namadevan (Bengaluru, India), Mohan Raju (Bengaluru, India), Subramani Adhiachari (Bengaluru, India), Prasant Bilaiya (Bengaluru, India) and Rajesh Kumar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-cleaning conduit for a hydrocarbon fluid. The conduit includes a tube and a mesh. The tube has an interior surface defining ...