ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,796, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Haimo Subsea Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and Haimo Subsea Technologies (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Metering method based on converted slip ratio fitting for wet natural gas" was invented by Yanzhi Pan (Shanghai), Pengrong Wen (Shanghai), Jianhua Xie (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaodong Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metering method based on converted slip ratio fitting for wet natural gas is provided. The method includes fitting relationships between a gas Froude number and Venturi differential pressure and Venturi pressure loss with known data to ob...