US Patent Issued to LOCUS SOLUTIONS IPCO on June 3 for "Compositions and methods for removing sludge from oil storage tanks" (Florida, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,894, issued on June 3, was assigned to LOCUS SOLUTIONS IPCO LLC (Solon, Ohio).

"Compositions and methods for removing sludge from oil storage tanks" was invented by Sean Farmer (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) and Ken Alibek (Solon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention provides microbe-based products, as well as their use to improve oil production and oil transmission and refining by, for example, remediating the disposable layers in oil tanks and other oil storage units. The subject invention can be used to remediate a sludge layer and/or other dissolved solid layers that form in oil storage tanks. Advantageously, the subj...