US Patent Issued to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.-Petrobras, Universidade Federal Do Espirito Santo-UFES on Dec. 9 for "Optical system for measuring water-oil interface level from fluid thermal properties" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,948, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.-Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Universidade Federal Do Espirito Santo-UFES (Vitoria, Brazil).

"Optical system for measuring water-oil interface level from fluid thermal properties" was invented by Luiz Octavio Vieira Pereira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Renan Costa Lazaro (Vitoria, Brazil), Anselmo Frizera Neto (Vitoria, Brazil), Katiuski Pereira Nascimento (Vitoria, Brazil) and Arnaldo Gomes Leal Junior (Vitoria, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention proposes a system for measuring the water-oil interface level based on the fluid thermal proper...