ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,571, issued on April 1, was assigned to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL-UFRGS (Porto Alegre, Brazil).
"Control and management system of multiphase streams in subsea oil and gas production modules" was invented by Fabio Cesar Diehl (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Marcelo Farenzena (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Fabio Alves Albuquerque (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Jorge Otavio Trierweiler (Porto Alegre, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a control and management system of multiphase streams in subsea oil and gas production modules. The syst...