US Patent Issued to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING on Sept. 29 for "Integrated autonomous oil-slick sampler and storage preservation device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,019, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).

"Integrated autonomous oil-slick sampler and storage preservation device" was invented by William P. Meurer (Magnolia, Texas), David T. Wang (Witchita Falls, Texas), Gregory W. Shipman (Houston), Jeffrey D. Spitzenberger (Spring, Texas), Michael Sutton (Magnolia, Texas), Jeffrey C. Bridges (Magnolia, Texas) and Paul Moreno (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous surface vessel includes an elongate body, and a sampling system operatively coupled to the body and including one or more sampling modules, wherein each samp...