ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,549, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris) and Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC (Houston).
"Gas separation membrane bundle with convertible flow configurations" was invented by Sandeep K. Karode (Boothwyn, Pa.), Karl Beers (Havertown, Pa.), Sudhir S. Kulkarni (Wilmington, Del.), Tim Poludniak (Newport, Del.), Fan Z. Worley (Hockessin, Del.) and Ed Sanders Jr. (Newark, Del.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hollow fiber membrane bundle useful for manufacturing a wide variety of hollow fiber membrane modules having different flow conf...