ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,846, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Method and design of multiple counterrotating unit reactor" was invented by Roman Alexandrovich Skachkov (Rosharon, Texas), Shahnawaz Hossain Molla (Cambridge, Mass.) and Zikri Bayraktar (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments presented provide for a multirotational counter rotating reactor. The reactor is configured to accept a fluid stream and separate the fluid stream into high quality liquid and gaseous phases through spinning of the sets of discs as well as through performing a heat transfer to the fluid stream."

The...