US Patent Issued to SAIPEM on Nov. 18 for "Method and system for determining over time a level of a phase interface of a multiphase fluid present in a vertical pipe" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,192, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAIPEM S.A. (Montigny le Bretonneux, France).

"Method and system for determining over time a level of a phase interface of a multiphase fluid present in a vertical pipe" was invented by Rudy Mauge (Rambouillet, France) and Paul Roland (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for the time determination of a phase interface level of a multiphase fluid present in a vertical pipe, include placing a distributed optical fiber sensor comprising an optical fiber cable wound in spiral around the pipe and optically coupled to a DAS interrogator, determining, from the data acquired by t...