ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,342, issued on April 22, was assigned to IRIS TECH INC. (Houston).
"Apparatus for injection of a powder reagent into the flow of a petroleum product and plant for transportation of petroleum products" was invented by Aleksandr Grigorievich Tachanov (Kazan, Russia), Artur Talgatovich Fakhraziev (Kazan, Russia), Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Nikitin (Kazan, Russia) and Igor Aleksandrovich Malykhin (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for mixing a powder reagent with a flow of a liquid medium allows reducing the liquid drag by an apparatus for injection of a powder reagent into the flow of a petroleum product, which comprises: a mi...