ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,978, issued on April 15, was assigned to Liquidat-R LLC.

"Accumulator and dissipation assembly for capturing exigent vented volatile fluids" was invented by Frank Wewers (Lenexa, Kan.), Steven P. Gautieri (Gladstone, Mo.) and Michael J. Gautieri (Gladstone, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for capturing volatile fluids and agglomerations discharged from chemical and refrigerant systems during an overpressure situation includes an energy dissipation assembly that uses impact bars and irregular surfaces to decrease the energy of such discharges by breaking up the agglomerations, and one or more tanks for capturing constituent...