ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,963, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sapphire Technologies Inc. (Cerritos, Calif.).

"Turboexpander system with low voltage ride through control architecture" was invented by Suratkal P. Shenoy (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Liping Zheng (Buena Park, Calif.) and Jeremy Liu (Norwalk, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric generator includes a turbine wheel configured to receive process gas and rotate in response to expansion of the process gas flowing into an inlet of the turbine wheel and out of the outlet of the turbine wheel, a rotor coupled to the turbine wheel and configured to rotate with the turbine wheel, and a stationa...