ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,288, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Multi-component mixture separation system" was invented by Sung Kyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Kyu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Tae Woo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a multi-component mixture separation system including a distillation column including a first section and a second section separated by a partition wall, and a phase separator receiving a lower discharge stream of the second section and separating the stream into an aqueous phase and an oil phase, and refluxing a portion of the se...