ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,277, issued on June 24, was assigned to IFP Energies nouvelles (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and AXENS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Method for regenerating an aqueous solution of MEG containing salts with purge treatment" was invented by Bruno Delfort (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Aurelie Wender (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Elsa Muller (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Xavier Courtial (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Guillaume Parer (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Pierre-Yves Lanfrey (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for regenerating a rich MEG aqueous solution (100), recovering a maximum amoun...