ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,306, issued on May 27, was assigned to SHELL USA INC. (Houston).
"Gas phase settling (GPS) tray" was invented by Johannis Desiderius Stolwijk (Amsterdam), Julien Sigaud (Amsterdam) and Edwin Maas (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for filtering and settling entrained particles from a gas feed stream, the device comprising a cylindrical v-wire filter element to filter the entrained particles, a cap located above the v-wire filter element comprising an outer surface, an under surface, and a downward rim attached to a perimeter of the under surface, and an open annulus area located between and in fluid communication with a...