ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,887, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sapphire Technologies Inc. (Cerritos, Calif.).
"Cooling gas recovered from a well" was invented by Jeffrey Earl (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Archie Andonian (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Diego Guimaraes Ferreira (Fullerton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flow from a gas well is conditioned prior to a production pipeline. A flow line is coupled to a gas well to receive the gas and coupled to a production pipeline to direct the received gas away from the production site, the flow line residing at a production site and comprising an electric power generation system. The electric power genera...