ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,491, issued on July 29, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Method for adjusting an oxygen production unit with different set points for each adsorber" was invented by Christian Monereau (Montpellier, France), David Bigot (Villepreux, France) and Marie Dehestru (Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adjusting a gas stream separation unit having N adsorbers, where Nless than=2, each following a PSA, VSA or VPSA adsorption cycle, with a time lag of a phase time, said adjustment method including continuously measuring a ph...