US Patent Issued to Marathon Petroleum on Jan. 27 for "Methods and systems for reducing contaminants in a feed stream" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,615, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Marathon Petroleum Co. LP (Findlay, Ohio).

"Methods and systems for reducing contaminants in a feed stream" was invented by Nhien Duong (Findlay, Ohio) and Montri Vichailak (Findlay, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for methods and systems for reducing contaminants in a feed stream are disclosed. Prior to reaching or upstream from one or more compressors, solid foulant is filtered from a feed stream. The compressor may further filter the feed stream. By reducing the solid foulant entering the one or more compressors, performance and life span of the one or more compressor...