US Patent Issued to Ningbo Institute of Dalian University of Technology on June 17 for "Crude oil transportation drag-reducing agent testing loop test bench and a use method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,232, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ningbo Institute of Dalian University of Technology (Ningbo, China).

"Crude oil transportation drag-reducing agent testing loop test bench and a use method thereof" was invented by Xin Lv (Beijing), Huiyong Liang (Pizhou, China), Shi Shen (Liaoyang, China), Tao Liu (Linyi, China), Xingyu Lu (Taiyuan, China), Shuangqing Zhang (Hefei, China) and Linan Zhao (Beipiao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crude oil transportation drag-reducing agent testing loop test bench and its use method is provided. The test bench includes a gas supply and pressurization system, a pressurized storage tank sys...