ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,926, issued on July 15, was assigned to NANOGAS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Deerfield, Ill.).
"Nanogas shear processing" was invented by Rudy M Folds (Abilene, Texas), Scott A Fiedler (Palantine, Ill.) and Jeffrey K Hardin (Wilmette, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for separation of a slurry by radially injecting a stream of a nanogas solution at a shear-focus volume within a pipe; passing an aqueous slurry through the pipe along a direction of flow and through the shear-focus volume; and shearing and/or admixing the slurry with the nanogas solution within the shear-focus volume."
The patent was filed on May 30, 2022, under App...