ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,490, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to WAVECREST ENERGY LLC (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Flexible regasification facility and methods of operation" was invented by Robert Bryngelson (The Woodlands, Texas), Ray Gagliardi (The Woodlands, Texas), Graeme Trotter (The Woodlands, Texas), Kenneth McGeachie (The Woodlands, Texas), Charles E. Ruehl Jr. (The Woodlands, Texas), Daniel Isaacson (The Woodlands, Texas) and Matthew Migliozzi (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A regasification facility, regasification systems and methods for import, offloading and regasification of liquid natural gas from liquid natural gas carriers i...