US Patent Issued to Marathon Petroleum on Dec. 2 for "Methods and systems for spillback control of in-line mixing of hydrocarbon liquids" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,389, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Marathon Petroleum Co. LP (Findlay, Ohio).

"Methods and systems for spillback control of in-line mixing of hydrocarbon liquids" was invented by Kyle E. Miller (Findlay, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of admixing hydrocarbon liquids from two or more sets of tanks into a single pipeline to provide in-line mixing thereof. In an embodiment of the in-line mixing system, hydrocarbon liquids stored in at least one tank of each of two or more sets of tanks positioned at a tank farm are blended into a blend flow pipe via in-line mixing and the blended mixture is pumped through a s...