US Patent Issued to TotalEnergies One Tech on June 24 for "Device and method for detecting the flocculation threshold of a colloidal medium, in particular a medium comprising asphaltenes, by addition of aliphatic solvent" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,207, issued on June 24, was assigned to TotalEnergies One Tech (Courbevoie, France).

"Device and method for detecting the flocculation threshold of a colloidal medium, in particular a medium comprising asphaltenes, by addition of aliphatic solvent" was invented by Ahmad Al Farra (Le Havre, France), Jerome Olivier (Le Havre, France), Martial Lepinay (Mouen, France) and Jean Christien (Saint Martin de Fontenay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for measuring the flocculation threshold of a colloidal medium by varying the intensity of the luminous flux, and a method for measuring the flocculation threshold of a colloidal me...