ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,961, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands) and LINDE AG (Munich).

"Method for flushing reactor" was invented by Suprayudi S. Kadir (Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia), Yasser Battal Mutairi-Al (Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullah H. Zaydi-Al (Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a flushing process for removing polymer fouling from a reactor including a gas distributor proximal to the bottom thereof and an internal condenser proximal to the top thereof, the method including, for a first flushing time period, injecting a flushing solvent into th...