US Patent Issued to CNX Resources on Aug. 11 for "Intentionally choked flow during an initial phase of a compressible fluid filling operation" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,226, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CNX Resources Corp. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"Intentionally choked flow during an initial phase of a compressible fluid filling operation" was invented by Kevin Robert Egeland (Pittsburgh) and Joseph Michael Fink (Washington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a storage tank and a feed line that supplies a compressible fluid from a high-pressure source to a plurality of fluid lines in fluid communication with the storage tank. The plurality of fluid lines includes a first fluid line having a first inner diameter sized to create choked flow conditions of the compressible fluid in the...