US Patent Issued to TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM on Feb. 18 for "Foaming system for efficient plasma processing of heavy hydrocarbon" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,703, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas).

"Foaming system for efficient plasma processing of heavy hydrocarbon" was invented by David Staack (College Station, Texas), Md Abdullah Hil Baky (Bryan, Texas), Charles S. Martens (College Station, Texas) and Howard B. Jemison (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for converting heavy hydrocarbons to light hydrocarbons includes an inlet capable of supplying a pre-foaming mixture comprising a hydrocarbon to be processed and a processing gas, wherein the processing gas is dissolved in the hydrocarbon to be processed; a foam gen...