US Patent Issued to Jason Ferguson on March 17 for "Systems for carrying, transporting, deploying and servicing a flare stack" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,089, issued on March 17, was assigned to Jason Ferguson (Robstown, Texas).

"Systems for carrying, transporting, deploying and servicing a flare stack" was invented by Joel Phillips (Corpus Christi, Texas) and Kevin Baker (Luling, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, systems, apparatus and methods for erecting a flare stack into at least one upright operating position includes a flare stack transporter configured to carry the flare stack in one or more lowered positions. At least a first retractor can be selectively actuated to help draw at least part of the flare stack in a first direction and at least a first g...