ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,306, issued on May 13, was assigned to S.A. LHOIST RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT (Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
"Method and installation for homogenizing a shear thinning fluid contained in a cylindrical tank" was invented by Robert Sebastian Gartner (Buizingen, Belgium), Guillaume Criniere (Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium), David Lyons (Fort Worth, Texas), Deborah Ballard (Fort Worth, Texas), Mickey L. Dixon Jr. (Pasadena, Texas) and Narahari N. Kramadhati (La Habra, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is related to an installation and to a method for recirculating and mixing a fluid which is preferably a shear...