US Patent Issued to Devon Energy on April 7 for "Optimized control of oilfield separator level and dump valves" (Wyoming Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,388, issued on April 7, was assigned to Devon Energy Corp. (Oklahoma City).

"Optimized control of oilfield separator level and dump valves" was invented by Trevor Aldinger (Gillette, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dump valve system controls the level of a liquid inside a vessel that includes a liquid discharge. The dump valve system includes an automatic dump valve connected downstream from the liquid discharge and configured to adjust the flow rate of the liquid through the liquid discharge, a float inside the vessel, a float arm connected to the float, and an inclinometer attached to the float arm and configured to output an...