US Patent Issued to JGC on July 15 for "Treatment plant and method for designing treatment plant" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,856, issued on July 15, was assigned to JGC Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Treatment plant and method for designing treatment plant" was invented by Hiroki Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomonori Miyashita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technology of preventing an increase in size of a treatment plant, which may be caused when a safety clearance for the prevention of spread of a fire is set, and restraining an increase in designed fire-extinguishing water usage. A treatment plant for handling a flammable liquid includes: an equipment placement region in which a plurality of equipments configured to handle t...