US Patent Issued to IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES on March 4 for "Device and method for detecting the presence of gas hydrate crystals" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,827, issued on March 4, was assigned to IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Device and method for detecting the presence of gas hydrate crystals" was invented by Didier Frot (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Nicolas Gautreau (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device and to a method for detecting at least the presence of gas hydrate crystals (10) formed by a fluid.The device according to the invention comprises: a polychromatic light source (2) likely to emit a radiation (20) at least in the visible spectrum; a body (3, 3', 3") comprising a reflecting surface (4) of pr...