ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,861, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SHELL USA INC. (Houston).
"Method and system for production optimization" was invented by Raghuraman Pitchumani (Rijswijk, Netherlands), Sharan Nair (Den Helder, Netherlands), Rakesh Jaysinh Paleja (London) and Jasper Stolte (Rijswijk, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method and system for optimizing production of a natural gas liquefaction process, the method comprising the steps of: selecting at least one manipulated variable (MV) for controlling the liquefaction process; selecting at least one control variable (CV), the at least one control variable at least...