ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,822, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).
"Compositions and methods for breaking foams and emulsions" was invented by Gayani W. Pinnawala (Houston), Sujeewa Palayangoda (San Ramon, Calif.), Varadarajan Dwarakanath (Houston), Mohamad Ali Salman (Houston) and Scott Presbury West (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for breaking foams, emulsions, or any combination thereof. The foam, emulsion, or any combination is contacted with a breaking composition. The breaking composition comprises a sulfosuccinate and a solvent. The solvent has an octanol/water partition...