US Patent Issued to GBA Marine AS on Oct. 20 for "Gas inlet assembly for oil tanks" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,429, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GBA Marine AS (Kolbjornsvik, Norway).

"Gas inlet assembly for oil tanks" was invented by Rune Bo (Arendal, Norway) and Helge K. Aasen (Kolbjornsvik, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas inlet assembly for oil tanks, connectable to a gas inlet pipe, for the maintenance of pressure and a non-explosive atmosphere during unloading of oil from an oil tank has at least one inlet conduit arranged to direct a unidirectional flow of gas from the inlet pipe to a primary inlet nozzle. The primary inlet nozzle includes a spreader element configured to spread the inflowing inert gas within the tank w...