US Patent Issued to CNX Resources on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus and method for harnessing energy from a wellbore to perform multiple functions while reducing emissions" (Pennsylvania, West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,071, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CNX Resources Corp. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"Apparatus and method for harnessing energy from a wellbore to perform multiple functions while reducing emissions" was invented by Joseph M. Fink (Washington, Pa.), Nicholas Joseph Phipps (Morgantown, W.va.), Joshua Wayne Mullins (Morgantown, W.va.), Kevin Robert Egeland (Pittsburgh) and Albert Edwin Jones (Bridgeville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for a gas production facility includes a vessel defining an interior chamber. The vessel is designed to operate at a pressure greater than a pressure of a fluid being produced from a wellbore,...