ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,373, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to National Oilwell Varco LP (Houston).
"Separator monitoring and control" was invented by Eric Landon Scott (Conroe, Texas), Ian Holman (Pearland, Texas) and Muthu Valliappan (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for separating solids from fluids, the system including a separator having a deck having a feed inlet and a solids outlet and a plurality of screens disposed on the deck. Also, an image sensor disposed proximate the solids outlet, the image sensor to capture images of the separator, and send the captured mages to a remote location for analysis. Additionally, a method of monitori...