US Patent Issued to TPE MIDSTREAM on Oct. 21 for "Reduced size fluid transfer and depressurization apparatus, control, and associated methods" (Florida, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,960, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TPE MIDSTREAM LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Reduced size fluid transfer and depressurization apparatus, control, and associated methods" was invented by Douglas A. Sahm (Lutz, Fla.) and Carson Depew (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to compress a fluid is disclosed herein. The example apparatus includes a casing, an actuation cylinder and a compression cylinder defined in the casing, a rod slidably coupled between the actuation cylinder and the compression cylinder, and a piston coupled to the rod at an end of the rod, the end of the rod in the compression cylinder, the piston sl...