ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,953, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sapphire Technologies Inc. (Cerritos, Calif.).
"Energy recovery from a gas well" was invented by Jeffrey Earl (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Freddie Sarhan (Anaheim, Calif.) and Diego Guimaraes Ferreira (Fullerton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy recovery system for generating electric power from flow out of a gas well includes a first flow path from a well to a pipeline comprising a turbine wheel coupled to a generator and a second flow path from the well to the pipeline. The second flow path is apart from the first flow path, and includes a valve. The first and second flow paths res...